How the Cloud Media app settings for Android Photo Picker will look like and Google introducing Partial Custom Tabs

Here’s what the Cloud Media app settings for Android Photo Picker will look like. The January Google Play system update brought an updated MediaProvider app, which includes a settings page that lets you choose the Cloud Media app where you store your photos and videos.

Eventually, the first such cloud media provider app is supposed to be Google Photos, so when you call Photo Picker you can see photos and videos not only from your device but also from the cloud. But the Google Photos developers have not implemented support for this feature so far.

Google is introducing Partial Custom Tabs, so apps can open links in a tab that only takes up part of the screen. You can customize the tab height in pixels. This works with a handful of browsers, including Chrome, with additional support coming soon.

Apparently, this has been supported since Chrome 107 and version 1.5.0-alpha01 of androidx.browser. Stable version 1.5.0 of androidx.browser was released a few days ago, though.

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