iOS & Canary Hint At New Google Chrome Widget Coming To Android

Google has a new widget in the works for Android Chrome, recently spotted in the Canary Channel. Or, more precisely, that appears to be a widget that's already in development and further along on iOS.

Dubbed the "Quick Activeness Search Widget," the new widget is adequately straightforward on the iPhone platform. It packs a three-button row and more than standard-looking Google Chrome Search row into a widget for the home screen. The top row, of courses, is the search bar, which opens upwardly a new tab in Chrome to jumpstart the search process.

The second row, however, is slightly taller and — on iOS — contains 3 clearly separated buttons. From left-to-right, the first of those houses Chrome's Incognito Mode icon and probable jumps to a new tab in that style. The second is a mic-shaped icon that launches voice input options. Finally, the third has a QR code scanner icon.

…but not everything is the same with the Android Chrome Widget

Now, the iOS Quick Action Search Widget for Chrome is quite a scrap different from the 1 for Android — not least of all, information technology doesn't appear to be in Canary Chrome on iOS. And information technology doesn't announced to be every bit far along in development.

To begin with, the Chrome Canary search bar is the but completed portion on Android. The spaces below that in the second row are all blank.

Peradventure more importantly, there are four empty buttons on the second row instead of but the 3 shown on iOS. And there are several possibilities that could imply.

Google may program to include more deportment on its own Android platform, just for starters. Although it'southward impossible to guess exactly what the extra action might be. Conversely, Google may choose to cut back to three buttons or go along four and and then let users customize what the buttons do. Or the widget may simply be so early in evolution that the 4th push hasn't been removed yet.

When is this coming?

The change in direction for Widgets at Google is inappreciably surprising, given the company's focus on the feature in Android 12. Only that doesn't mean this will arrive any sooner than that does. As of this writing, Chrome Canary is at version 93 and this feature is still behind an experimental flag, as shown in the paradigm below. Then, at the earliest, that's when this new widget should probably be expected. Although information technology may get in sooner if development picks up. Chrome 93 is soon slated for launch on or around August 31.

Source: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2021/06/google-chrome-canary-android-widget-change.html

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