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TL; Dr
- Google Maps has been slowly engaged on a brand new sheets-first implementation of its interface.
- Final 12 months that received began with Discover as a sheet, preserving the primary map view seen beneath.
- Now that very same look has prolonged to the You and Contribute screens.
Final 12 months, Google began engaged on a brand new strategy to its interface for Maps. The change may really feel slightly delicate at first, but it surely really appears fairly sensible; principally, Google has been redesigning the Maps UI in order that extra app components seem as sheets that also maintain the first map view open within the background, somewhat than opening full-screen themselves. Final summer season we noticed this variation 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 variation, and we are able to verify that we’re already seeing this on our personal Android units, as properly, operating Google Maps 25.16.06.
Now, along with Discover, the You and Contribute buttons on the backside of the display screen equally launch as sheets when tapped. You’ve got the flexibility to pull them as much as broaden, both filling the vast majority of the display screen or taking over simply the underside half. Both method, although, we get the identical impact we did when this was initially simply accessible 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 received the ball rolling on this redesign the higher a part of a 12 months in the past, we’re slightly 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 blissful to have it.
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