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TL;DR
- Google Translate is trying on a new look for its Android home screen widgets.
- The larger Translate widgets are smoothing out their borders, offering a much cleaner appearance.
- Google’s smaller Translate widgets, meanwhile, pick up some helpful labels.
Android widgets can make it easy to quickly access some of the most important features within our favorite apps, right from the home screen, and now Google’s updating its look for the widgets offered by Translate.
Earlier this year, we saw Google bring some new widgets to Translate: five shortcuts to app features, plus a straightforward text-translate tool. Now all six of those, plus two older Translate widgets, are getting some visual tweaks.
First, let’s revisit how all these widgets have appeared, up until now:
On the larger widgets, we’ve had that tight border following each individual element, resulting in a bit of a bulbous appearance. And for the newer, smaller ones, we just got those icons alone.
With version 10.43.74.1015708864.6-release of Google Translate, we see all of those changing:
Honestly, these updates all look pretty good. Our larger widgets adopt a more unified appearance, now looking more properly like self-contained interfaces. Within them all, rounded corners are now tighter. And our smaller shortcuts both drop that eensy-weensy Translate icon, as well add some much-appreciated labels that spell out precisely which app tools they connect to. Not bad, right?
Admittedly, this isn’t the most impactful change in the world — and it’s not going to really impact how we use Google Translate widgets — but we still very much appreciate the visual enhancement to the UI.
Look for Google’s new design language for Translate widgets hitting the app on your phone soon.
