Google is as soon as once more experimenting with the UI for its native Contacts app. Following a previous leak the place the app’s single-contact web page seemed to be getting a extra decluttered view, a brand new tweak has been uncovered…solely this time it tackles the highest search bar.
Consistent with the spirit of spring-cleaning and decluttering, Google has a minor redesign within the works for the highest search bar of the Contacts app, the place the account switcher and the “add contact” button are getting got rid of to the facet. It is a small change, however the entire change feels very Play Retailer-esque.
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This is not a change that’s obtainable to the general public but, as it’s neatly tucked behind hidden flags, the sort you want a rooted Android to allow. The inside track comes courtesy of
AssembleDebug over on TheSpAndroid, who has discovered a number of of those UI tweaks over the previous few weeks.
It is a work in progress that may very well be lifeless within the water by subsequent week, as Google appears to experiment with varied designs directly and will at any second nix one in favor of the opposite. Nonetheless, the query stays whether or not that is simply half of a bigger redesign or maybe a whole overhaul of the Contacts app. Contacts isn’t precisely an app that one steadily opens as a standalone app, however is usually simply the place your contacts reside that you just entry by way of different apps.
Given this, one tends to marvel if Google spending time on this redesign indicators a much bigger change. Maybe there is a new characteristic within the works that warrants components of the UI being switched round? It would not be utterly off-brand when you think about that Google I/O is simply across the nook, and that is when Google sometimes declares upcoming options for the forthcoming model of Android. It is enjoyable to take a position, and we solely have a couple of extra weeks earlier than we hopefully discover out what Google has in retailer for the Contacts app.
