Android may soon make the battery icon a whole lot more colorful

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing new icons for various status bar elements like WiFi, mobile data, airplane mode, and battery level. We previously spotted the new designs for the WiFi, mobile data, and airplane mode icons last year, but the battery level icon has been significantly revamped since we last saw it. Instead of having a white background at all times, the new battery level icon we spotted in Android 16 has a vivid green background when the device is charging and a red background when it’s low on power. Google doesn’t change up Android’s user interface all that often, much to the dismay of vocal power users online. The upcoming Android 16 update, for example, doesn’t look all that different from last year’s release or the previous year’s. However, we know that Google is hard at work revamping Android’s UI, as we’ve seen extensive evidence of various UI changes in the past few months. One area that we thought Google had abandoned was the status ba ... Read full article.