In addition to allowing you to pay for your purchases with your Android smartphone on compatible terminals, Google Wallet also allows you to securely store your payment cards, transport tickets, concert tickets or, depending on the country, on your device. your identity papers. The application could finally meet with success thanks to a small change that will change everything.
Despite Google’s financial and marketing power, it must be admitted that Google Wallet remains comparatively less used on Android than Apple Pay on iPhone. While Apple has been able to forge partnerships with traditional French banks, such contracts are sorely lacking for the Android application. As a result, it is much less practical on a daily basis than its Cupertino counterpart. Add to this that the user interface of Google Wallet is not always the most instinctive, especially with regard to loyalty card management.
A journalist from the XDA Developers site has discovered that part of the code for Android 14 Beta 1, which has just been deployed, reveals a geolocation-based loyalty card suggestion feature. In other words, Google Wallet will automatically offer to use the card corresponding to the business in which you find yourself.
Google wants to make Google Wallet much more practical in everyday life
THE location-based suggestions are interesting with other types of documents. Plane tickets, train tickets or concert tickets can also be stored on your smartphone. While managing all those tickets on iPhone is relatively simple and easy on iOS, the same cannot be said on Android. It is therefore high time that this feature landed on the Google OS.
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The editor of the XDA article, Mishaal Rahman, nevertheless recalls that this information left by the developers in the source code of Android 14 Beta 1 does not allow us to be formal about the final implementation of this feature and should therefore be taken with a large grain of salt.
Source: XDA Developers