Google Now Launcher brings its news to all Android users
The company Google is making progress in its preparation for the arrival of Android 6.0 or Marshmallow A new version of its operating system for mobile phones and tablets that will also bring novelties in its visual section. Thus, after testing these new features in terminals with the Preview version of this operating system, it has decided to launch an update on the application Google Now Launcher, your environment for placing the Google Now assistant always at hand on the terminal's desktop.A more than notable update since it changes the appearance of the terminal and part of its operation.
So, users who update Google Now Launcher will find a lot of notable new features Some of them are as important as the change in the operation of the application drawer. A section in which the user moved to the left or right, changing the screen with each swipe, but now transforms into a vertical list of installed tools, being able to move little by little up or down. All this accompanied by the possibility of sliding your finger along the right side of the screen to quickly find applications according to the letter with which their name begins.
In addition, this drawer now includes an application search bar at the top.A utility to find any installed application, but also those that are not. You just have to write the name of one for this new menu to show it, or the option to search for it directly through Google Play Store There is also afirst row of common applications as a suggestion in this new drawer. In this way, the user always has at hand the applications that he uses the most depending on the time of day, streamlining the experience and adapting it to each person.
Apart from this radical change in behavior, there are other tweaks and new elements that make the general use of the terminal Android more comfortable thanks to this update. In this way, the menu of widgets or shortcuts is now more organized. Instead of displaying them by the name of the widget, which could mix up these elements despite belonging to the same app, they are now sorted by the name of thisSomething that makes it faster and more comfortable to find the items to place on the desktop from one or another application.
Lastly, and related to the widgets, there is now a new one focused on Google Sound Search A service that acts like the Shazam application, identifying the song that is playing in the environment where the user is. A shortcut that can be placed on the desktop to quickly hunt down any unknown songs.
In short, a remarkable change that introduces how desktops will look with Android Marshmallow, but that anyone can already enjoy by downloading the application Google Now Launcher from Google Play Store It's completely free Of course, you have to think twice if you really want to have a vertical application drawer or not, and that is that many users are already showing their disappointment in the comments section of the download page.
