These days, we’re all living in a Material world.

Don’t worry: I’m not about to get all Madonna on you. I’m talking about Material with a capital “M” — the name of Google’s multiplatform design standard and a term increasingly representative of the Android experience.

Material Design, after all, is the set of principles that guides how your Android devices look and work (as far as what’s actually on the screen — which is arguably the most important part of the equation). It extends not only throughout the entire operating system but also throughout the entire ecosystem. It affects more and more non-Android entities all the time, too — everything from Chrome OS to Google’s universal web apps and a variety of other sites and software.

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