Since the last Google I/O conference, the manufacturer of the future Pixel Tablet has been optimizing the experience of the Google application on touchscreen tablets in small steps. Google’s Discover feature gets a new layout, with more content displayed.
Last year, during Google I/O, the web giant unveiled the highly anticipated Pixel Tablet, which is part of our expectations for Google in 2023. Since then, Google has been updating its applications on the tablets, we imagine that it is to refine the user experience of its future model. It’s the turn of Discover (formerly Google Feed), the content discovery function of the Google application, to be entitled to some modifications.
Three columns of articles in Google Discover
The most notable change concerns the flow of articles: if there were previously only two columns, Discover now increases to three. While news article titles are about the same size as before, illustration images are a bit smaller.
Google Discover before the update // Source: 9to5Google
Google Discover after the update // Source: 9to5Google
Also, the items were contained in a single box: now, each is stored in a kind of card. If the width is the same, the height is not the same according to the lines. The only new feature missing: the Material You style, a feature that appeared on Android 12 and which allows the colors of the application to be synchronized with those of the wallpaper.
A slightly different Google Discover experience on the Pixel Tablet
According to the media 9to5Google, which spotted the changes made by Google, the Discover experience on the Pixel Tablet might not be entirely similar. We could see the appearance of rows of suggested media ” from your applications ”, like Google TV.
We can also imagine content from SVoD services, or evencloud gamingdisplayed in this section. We can also think that Material You would finally make its arrival, which would make the Pixel Experience all the more coherent.
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