Google Maps and Google Drive
Not everything is Material Design in Google applications. Or well, actually yes. But not everything has to do only with the design and appearance of their services. Many of the changes that Google eventually introduces to its applications also have to do with usability or the user experience. And this can make life much easier for those who use these tools on a daily basis. Google's new trend is to make it easy to switch between user accounts quicklySomething that will make those who always carry several active Google accounts happy. Of course, for now, it has only been seen on Google Maps and Google Drive.
We are talking about a new gesture system to switch between user accounts. Something that modifies the protocol seen and experienced to date, in which it is (or was) necessary to perform several screen clicks to leave one countdown and enter the other. Even when you have already logged in with the second account, it is necessary to open a contextual menu, choose the account to enter and thus go to see its contents. Well, this is changing with a simple swipe A much faster gesture to speed up switching between accounts.
Of course, for now this gesture is landing in the latest versions of Google Maps and Google Drive.But we hope it will reach other Google services most used by users with multiple accounts, such as Gmail. Update your apps to their latest version to check if the feature is available. How to confirm it? By performing a swipe up or down on your account's profile photo in the upper right corner. If this helps you to change accounts, you will not waste any more time on this action.
To make all this more fluid and comfortable, Google has also created animations in these applications. In other words, when performing the gesture and switching between the different accounts that are already logged in or started, the applications show separate movements in one way or another. For example, Google Maps goes to a blank screen momentarily before showing content again. For its part, Google Drive is a bit more stylish, and plays with an animation between cards that moves the old account and the new one to show all the information always in screen without tedious switching.
At the moment this function is gradually coming to the above applications So be patient if you find that you can't switch between accounts so quickly. You will have to settle for giving a couple of pulsations as before. Although the wait should not be long. Of course, if you want to force things you can download the latest version of the Google Drive application from APKMirror and try your luck.
