In recent years, Google has put a lot of effort into optimizing its apps and services for mobile devices, both Android and iOS. And among the apps that cut across these two systems we find Google Chat.
Chat is the messaging platform associated with Gmail that Google launched in a renewed version last year, after countless experiments conducted in the messaging sector. In the last few hours a significant amount has been announced renewal of its graphical interface.
Google has in fact shown how the Chat graphical interface will change. The novelty is revolting exclusively to the mobile versions of the app, i.e. the one for Android devices and the one for iOS. The renovation mainly involves the navigation bar of the app.
The novelty that catches the eye the most is the division into four main categories, which are collected in a particular floating bar at the bottom of the interface. The four sections are for quick access to specific categories of Google Chat content:
- Home: which helps you see all conversions in a single view, with a filter that allows you to directly access unread messages.
- Private messages: To view a compact list of all messages with private and group users.
- Spaces: To view a compact list of all workspaces, including those docked to the top.
- Mentions: which helps you easily find messages from conversations and spaces where you have received mention.
The other new feature instead involves access to Chat from the Gmail app: as you can see from the screenshots in the gallerythere are no longer any quick links to Chat it’s at Spaces but exclusively the one in Chat.
Finally, next to the floating bar we saw before is positioned the quick create button to start conversations. In short, it certainly seems like a choice particularprecisely because of the two bars (the persistent lower one and the floating one) which they live together at the bottom of the interface.
However, we expect this to be the definitive look chosen by Google, at least for the moment. The news arrives for the Android and iOS apps of Google Chat. We should all receive it globally within the next few weeks.
