Chrome 135 Rolling Out Edge-To-Edge Design On Android

As previewed last month, Chrome 135 for Android is rolling out an edge-to-edge design for the bottom of your screen.

As you scroll down a webpage, Android’s gesture navigation bar is no longer displayed against a solid background, which Chrome started theming last year.

Instead, the gesture bar will appear over web content when scrolling for a more immersive experience. This change doesn’t really result in you seeing more of the page, but it’s a welcome Chrome modernization as more and more Android apps go edge-to-edge.

The background remains visible on initial page load (when you’re at the top of the screen), and as you’re scrolling back up.

Static vs. scrolling (2, 3)

Behind-the-scenes, Chrome displays a new “dynamic bottom bar” — referred to as “the chin” — over the gesture navigation bar area that will “dynamically retract as the page scrolls down.”

This causes the viewport to expand, allowing web content to be drawn up to the bottom edge of the device.”

Chrome 135 should be widely rolled out via the Play Store. However, this edge-to-edge change is rolling out as a separate server-side update that more users are now seeing this week.

This is coming first to mobile “small-screen” devices, with large-screen (tablet) support coming later. It’s also just for gesture nav and not 3-button navigation, which would benefit from a transparent design, as far as we can tell today.