Google has several fronts open as a permanent contest that keeps you in “state of war”, and apart from Gemini or the updates it makes to its pixel, now a little break has been taken to redesign the Widget of the search bar In Android. This time the proposal is based on offering a personalized direct access with 11 possible options.
What Google now does is give the user to choose between several buttons to customize the experience of the search engine with all these possibilities: none, Ia modetranslation, song search, time, translation (camera), sports, dictionary, home work, finance, saved and news.
This personalized button It appears separately to the right of the widget to leave the microphone button and the Google Lens button a little earlier. The new design is based on the renewal of the Rodea interface to search through an update earlier this year. A little higher than before, but follow the material design language 3 to make the search fields a little thicker.
The rest of the widget remains practically the same And the novelty lies in the optional direct access that moves to the right to stay as a button that becomes the protagonist of the entire widget. Which makes it easier to differentiate it as well as touch it to go to AI mode or direct translation with the camera app by pointing with the mobile to any text in another language.
The minimum size For the widget to be completely drawn is 4 x 1 instead of 3 x 1, so you will have to adapt the home screen to use the new custom widget button. There is another small detail in the widget when adjusting transparency, since what will be modified will be the external part.
The old widget on the left and the new right
To customize the extra button simply a long touch on widget On the home screen and the pencil is selected. Now we can choose the desired access to fully customize the experience of one of the most used widgets always on Android.
9to5google He has found the redesign in the beta of the Google app with version 16.17. The possibility of configuring this button is available in other layers such as One UI 7, but the three new options of this update: AI mode, saved and news, so the total number of accesses right now ascends to eleven.
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An expected update for Customize widget And thus configure the one that suits us, one to use the camera when we travel and thus the texts can be translated into another language, or go directly to the AI mode for the generative artificial intelligence of Google with Gemini.
