On Android, the Google app and Discover feed could change the way they open a web page. For the moment, this novelty is only tested in beta on certain Pixel phones.
Don’t bother trying out and testing this little change on your Android phone, as it’s currently rolling out to a few Pixel phones running the latest Google app beta. In any case, it is asserted 9to5Googlewho was however able to experience this novelty.
The novelty in question logically concerns the Google application, as well as the Google Discover feed. These two entities could change the way they open a web page: the default full screen could in the future be a thing of the past, to make way for a small location dedicated to the background.
Push to navigation
The web page you are on would therefore no longer take up all the space on your screen, in favor of the original Discover feed on one side, or the search bar on the other (for a Google search). As pointed out 9to5Googlethis would remind users that other results are waiting for them with a click, thus encouraging them to browse further.
Source: 9to5Google
Source: 9to5Google
Regarding the search bar of the Google application, which would then be visible and accessible in the background, it would make it possible to relaunch a search there too in one click. In the idea, it would be practical. The action buttons (close the page, share, favorite pages and settings) would remain as they are, so as not to upset our habits either.
Google would let you choose
If you want to display your web page in full screen, then Google could give you the opportunity: you just have to “pull” the page up. Conversely, the “drag” down removes said page and returns you to the previous interface. It is not known if Google will decide to deploy this novelty on a large scale.
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