Presumably, devices without Android 12 and its dynamic colors system will simply show the blue hues, as seen in the revamped Gmail. On Android 12, the widget adopts the colors of your wallpaper.Īs an interesting side note, we’ve confirmed that the upcoming widget is currently poised to only arrive for devices on Android 11 or newer. While significantly less useful, the widget is surprisingly adorable when downsized to 3 x 2. Just as you’d expect, the widget can be resized freely, adding or removing shortcuts as you make it wider or taller. Similar in design to the recently added Chrome Quick Action Search widget, the Maps widget features a prominent search bar, with four shortcuts underneath, such as “Home,” “Restaurants,” “Bakery,” and “Groceries.” These suggestions appear to be the same as the row of options listed below the search bar in the main app. While it’s not currently available to use, our Dylan Roussel was able to manually enable the Google Maps widget to show it in action.
With the beta update to version 11.0 of Google Maps, rolling out now via the Play Store, there’s work being done to introduce a new homescreen widget. Over the past few months, in anticipation of Android 12’s Material You overhaul - as well as the Pixel 6, which has extensively used Material You and widgets in advertising - Google has been adding a variety of homescreen widgets to their apps. We’ll try to enable those that are closer to being finished, however, to show you how they’ll look in the case that they do ship. This extension is built on top of the default YouTube theme (native dark theme) so it is very light-weighted compare to using themes injected by Stylish or Stylus extensions. Keep in mind that Google may or may not ever ship these features, and our interpretation of what they are may be imperfect. 'Dark Theme for YouTube' extension converts YouTube theme to a highly customizable dark charcoal/blue theme.
When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see various lines of code within that hint at possible future features.
The latest addition to Google’s rapidly growing catalog of Android homescreen widgets is a handy search widget for Google Maps.Ībout APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store.