Google has up to date its Google Maps app for Android customers, and there are some main modifications to the consumer interface.
The navigational app which thousands and thousands of Australians depend on every day is continually evolving and, whereas the updates may take some getting used to, they’ve been designed to extend usability.
The newest modifications to the consumer interface (UI) usually are not but obtainable in iOS however are being rolled out globally for Android customers.
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The obvious change has modified how places are displayed on the display screen after the consumer plots them in.
A faucet on the placement search bar will nonetheless carry up a full-screen web page of predicted location options, as ordinary, however as soon as the locations have been entered the UI has a lighter feel and appear.
Now, moderately than the highest quarter of the map being blocked out with each the journey places and buttons to find out the mode of transport — driving, public transport, ride-share or taxi service, or biking — solely the places will stay.
They may float over the map in a bubble on the prime of the display screen, whereas the mode-of-transport buttons might be displayed on an expandable “sheet” on the backside of the display screen — bettering thumb-reachability for the hand holding the cellphone.
The assorted sheets, which pop up all around the app, have additionally had an interface-lift and now function extra rounded edges.
All of this enables extra of the map to be in view throughout use.
Nevertheless, a earlier perform which allowed the search bar to be utterly pushed offscreen with a swipe upwards, and returned with a faucet on the map, has been scrapped with the replace.
