LinkedIn Finally Gets A Material Design Makeover In Its 4.0 Update for Android

LinkedIn's main app rarely gets significantly updated. It has added a few new features here and there over the past years, but it has looked the same since time immemorial. Very Holo, very grey, very Ice Cream Sandwich. You can finally bid adieu to that old design though, since version 4.0 is ready to coat your smartphone's screen with fresh animations, a cleaner design, more white, better use of space, and some nicer transitions and animations.

LinkedIn's design reshuffled and reorganized the app too. Gone is the side drawer, replaced by a blue bar at the top with icons for each tab. Swipe left and right to switch between your feed, profile, messages, connections, and search. The last icon only gives you links to grab LinkedIn's other apps. 

If you're wondering where the settings have gone, they're now accessible from the profile tab and let you tweak a lot of your LinkedIn profile options, not just the Android app's.

The design of the LinkedIn Android app isn’t the only thing that got a makeover, though. The Android application also received serious organizational changes as well as better navigation features.

Users can now swipe left and right to access their feed, profile, messages, connections, and search. The Settings option has a new home within a user’s profile tab, which now gives you full access to LinkedIn’s profile options.


The new design was much needed, as LinkedIn for Android has been stuck on the Holo/Ice Cream Sandwich design patterns for some time now. With that in mind, this new update should help users be able to navigate LinkedIn on mobile much easier now.

LinkedIn's design reshuffled and reorganized the app too. Gone is the side drawer, replaced by a blue bar at the top with icons for each tab. Swipe left and right to switch between your feed, profile, messages, connections, and search. The last icon only gives you links to grab LinkedIn's other apps. If you're wondering where the settings have gone, they're now accessible from the profile tab and let you tweak a lot of your LinkedIn profile options, not just the Android app's.


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