In a post published on its official blog The Keyword, Google told about the five features offered by the team’s favorite Android widgets: among these is a new widget for Google Maps on Android, not yet released but which will arrive soon.
Specifically, it is a widget that will allow users to monitor nearby traffic directly from the home screen of their Android smartphone and will join the over 30 widgets already provided by the apps developed directly by the Mountain View giant.
Google Maps will soon receive a new widget
According to Google, and many users will agree, widgets are a very simple way to customize the home screen on Android, allowing you to have an eye on the most important information for each of us, including mail, weather, and the list of things. to do or the photos we care about most.
As anticipated at the beginning, Google Maps will soon receive a new and very useful widget that will allow users to keep an eye on the traffic situation in the vicinity. It is a widget that is previewed only in its square configuration and which, as its name suggests, shows the map with the traffic situation in the vicinity of the user’s position: in fact, in the center of the widget is always the blue dot corresponding to the current position is shown and, as you can see, the main arteries are colored green, yellow, orange or red depending on the intensity of traffic.
As is possible with all Android widgets, even with this widget for Google Maps it will be possible to interact without the need to open the app, by zooming in or out on the map. The arrival of the new widget for Google Maps allows the Mountain View giant to reach the milestone of 35 widgets made available to users through their apps on the Android system.
To celebrate this milestone, Google wanted to tell the five features offered by the team’s favorite widgets, the first of which was precisely this, concerning the new Google Maps widget.
Google: Here are the other four features for the team’s favorite Android widgets
In addition to the new widget for Google Maps, Google has enhanced the potential of four other widgets with which it wants to help users organize and customize their home screens in the best possible way.
Archive emails with a tap on Gmail
The widget offered by the Gmail app allows users to keep their email inbox organized: when a new email message arrives, it will be possible to archive it without having to open the app.
Scroll through the to-do list
The Google Keep app is very handy for storing notes or to-do lists. Through the widget offered by the app, you can keep track of your daily activities, scroll through the various notes and start a new note.
Browse your favorite translations
Google Translate has recently received a significant graphic renewal. The app widget allows users to scroll through the list of saved translations, a very convenient feature, especially in the case of travel, which allows you to have the most useful phrases always at hand, without the need to open the app.
Resize widgets as you want
Last but not least, we come to one of the distinctive features of widgets for Android: they are resizable (and can change shape) to help users rearrange their home screen, without the need to be deleted. and reinserted. An example of these countless possibilities can be found on the Google Drive widget.
How to update the Google Maps app
In order not to risk missing out on the latest news coming to Google Maps, including this new widget on nearby traffic that will arrive shortly, just update the app via the Google Play Store.
If you are interested in trying out the news that will arrive in the future within Google Maps, you can participate in the Beta Program of the app (accessible via this link) or if the program is complete, proceed to download and manual installation of the APK files of the latest beta versions available from the APKMirror portal (page reachable at this link).
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