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TL;DR
- Google Maps has been slowly engaged on a brand new sheets-first implementation of its interface.
- Final yr that acquired began with Discover as a sheet, conserving the principle map view seen beneath.
- Now that very same look has prolonged to the You and Contribute screens.
Final yr, Google began engaged on a brand new strategy to its interface for Maps. The change may really feel a bit of delicate at first, but it surely really appears fairly good; principally, Google has been redesigning the Maps UI in order that extra app components seem as sheets that also preserve the first map view open within the background, fairly than opening full-screen themselves. Final summer season we noticed this transformation come to the Discover tab in Maps on Android, and now it’s increasing even additional.
The crew over at 9to5Google first made us conscious of this transformation, and we are able to affirm that we’re already seeing this on our personal Android gadgets, as effectively, working Google Maps 25.16.06.
Now, along with Discover, the You and Contribute buttons on the backside of the display equally launch as sheets when tapped. You could have the flexibility to pull them as much as increase, both filling the vast majority of the display or taking on simply the underside half. Both manner, although, we get the identical impact we did when this was initially simply out there for Discover: Google Maps feels prefer it’s extra concerning the precise map.
All the pieces within the app ought to nonetheless be exhibiting up the place you’re used to seeing it — simply now carried out on these floating sheets that dwell above the map itself. Contemplating how comparatively easy of a change this feels, and the way Google already acquired the ball rolling on this redesign the higher a part of a yr in the past, we’re a bit of curious what made it take fairly this lengthy to lastly get the remainder of the app’s UI matching, however now that it’s right here we’re simply completely happy to have it.
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