Material Cue is a design-focused overlay tool that draws grids and keylines over the device screen to help ensure Material Design compliance. It offers eight predefined overlays, a flexible expression language, and an editor with live preview, plus easy switching between overlays via notifications. Note: the app is discontinued and no longer supported, with 10,000+ total downloads and -1 in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Specialized tool for grids and keylines tailored to Material Design
Custom overlays via a flexible expression language
Efficient, fast overlay switching and a feature-rich editor
Free core functionality with early access to premium features
Not a general-purpose overlay or launcher app; no widget/home screen integration
Discontinued and unsupported, which may affect reliability and updates
Requires overlay permission (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) and data analytics consent
About Material Cue
Material Cue was a tools app developed by Paul Danyliuk. It was removed from Google Play Feb 11, 2022 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Material Cue had been downloaded 22 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Material Cue was rated 4.13 out of 5 stars, based on 300 ratings.
App Information
Material Cue was free to download. The APK download size was 2.07 MB. The last available version was 0.9.1. The last update was on January 13, 2017.
Technical Requirements
Material Cue required Android 4.1+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play March 2016.
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The app is discontinued. No support is provided.
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★★★★★
Great app, I use it for golf clash. As of November 1st 2021 after Android 12 update it no longer displays over apps and let's you click anything. Almost like entire screen isn't usable while open Hopefully they fix issue soon
★★★★★
I have been using this app for a few months without issues. However, just today I started seeing issues with the grid lines disappearing from the screen after about 20 seconds. I know there wasn't an update to the app and noticed others having similar problems. I found that I had changed a setting in the power options. I had set it to save battery life and it puts idle apps to sleep. I set the power setting back to optimized and the grid lines stay on the screen until I close the app.
★★★★★
Excellent app for checking layouts.
★★★★★
Doesn't work on Android 12. When grid lines are turned on you can't touch anything on the screen. New Android 12 security feature I believe. Please provide a fix.
★★☆☆☆
stopped using it because the grids always disappear after a while.
★★☆☆☆
The grid constantly disappears try to reload it just for it to disappear again
★★☆☆☆
it works great except for it CONSTANTLY crashing in the middle of my game and have no way to bring it back up!! will change to 5 stars AFTER this gets sorted! until then 2 stars is all i can rate because what is the point in using an app that crashes at least 20 times a day! makes things really frustrating!!
★★☆☆☆
I am unable to understand how to use this app I am an Android developer and wants to use this app but didn't found any tutorial how this app helps if you can give me some documentation to understand or examples how this app helps I will change my review to 5 star and will use this app for my development and testing.
Technologies used by Material Cue
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Trust & Safety: Discontinued product; no longer supported by the developer. The app requests overlay-related permissions (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) and other permissions, and uses Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics to collect anonymous usage data with user consent per Terms. Users should assess device policies and security considerations given the lack of ongoing updates.
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