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Google Keeps preps floating bottom bar [Gallery]

Google Keeps preps floating bottom bar [Gallery]

Earlier this year, Google Chat introduced a floating bottom bar, and Google Keep for Android is following suit.  When Google Keep got its Material You redesign in 2021, the primary change — besides Dynamic Color — to the bottom portion of the app was the floating action button switching from a circle to a square with rounded corners. (To my eye, the cutout for the FAB wasn’t very inline with Material 3. Look at how Google Tasks was updated.) Google Keep is now… Source link

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Google Search Testing New Search Bar Design

Google Search Testing New Search Bar Design

Google Search seems to be testing a new search bar design on mobile search. The bar shows the images, videos, news, shopping, maps, etc buttons but with a light blue background color, as a curved button. I noticed it on Friday and then again on Saturday, when signed into Google.com on mobile Safari on iOS. Thomas Eccel and Adriaan Dekker also spotted it on Friday and posted about it on X and LinkedIn. Here is a screenshot of the new search bar test: Here is what Google is… Source link

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Google Assistant Driving Mode isn’t dead, but it’s now just a bar

Google Assistant Driving Mode isn’t dead, but it’s now just a bar

Earlier this month, Google announced it was deprecating a slew of Assistant features. One of those removals was the “App Launcher” in Assistant Driving Mode, which most people assumed was the entire experience. Google tells us that is not the case, and here’s what will be left of Assistant Driving Mode after February 7. In short, Assistant Driving Mode is the black bar that appears at the bottom of Google Maps when you’re navigating. At the moment, it can… Source link

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