Android Gets A Logo Makeover And A New AI Widget

Change is coming to Android, each when it comes to software program updates and its branding as a complete. Google has unveiled its up to date search for the Android emblem, which is meant to modernize the model in addition to provide extra visible adaptability sooner or later. The Android model is not truly altering, after all, however you are going to begin seeing this new look in your Android units and in different promotional supplies and conditions all through this yr and past — until or till it goes by way of one other redesign.

Outside of this makeover, numerous new options are headed to the Android platform throughout a large number of system necessities from Android 6 to Android 11. More particularly, two of those new instruments make the most of AI in an try that can assist you each preserve tabs on the necessary parts of your day-to-day, and supply higher accessibility in terms of viewing photographs and different visible photographs in your units.

Any firm that is been round for some time is sure to replace its emblem because the years go by, and regardless of a 2019 refresh Android is at it once more with a brand new look. The typeface itself hasn’t modified because it’s nonetheless meant to look similar to the one getting used for the Google emblem (albeit with fewer edges the place the curved and straight parts of a letter meet), nevertheless the lower-case “a” is out completely — each within the emblem itself and throughout the platform’s branding as a complete. Now it has been capitalized, each to deliver the Android look extra in-line with what we have come to anticipate from Google through the years in addition to add “more weight to its appearance” for a extra severe look total.

Of course the textual content is not the one component that is altering. “Bugdroids,” Android’s extra recognizable little inexperienced robot-looking icons, are additionally altering. More particularly, they’re making the bounce from 2D to 3D. The iconic dome head, dots for eyes, and tiny antennae nonetheless stand out, however are actually barely larger and “puffier.” The toes are flattened out a bit, and the physique itself has gone from a rounded rectangle to extra of a squared oval. So now the underside matches the curve of the top. It all comes collectively to make the bugdroid (in all its adaptable colours and textures) look somewhat extra pleasant.

If you are occupied with a extra purposeful (although nonetheless digital) Android replace, Android can also be rolling out some AI-powered updates on your units. The new Assistant At a Glance widget leverages AI to find out what sort of info you need or want in a given second, then brings that data to the forefront if you want it. Covering the whole lot from reminders and alerts to climate particulars and dynamic journey updates. Right in your Home Screen — assuming you are working Android 9 or newer, that’s.

Lookout can also be getting an Image Q&A characteristic to help these with low-vision. When prepared, it means that you can open a picture in your Android machine (out of your saved photographs, group chats, or social media app feeds) and obtain an AI-generated description. After that, you possibly can ask — through voice or textual content — extra questions concerning the photograph for clarification and extra detailed descriptors. Provided in certainly one of as much as 34 supported languages (together with the 11 that have been added lately like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Though it does require Android 8 or newer, in addition to at the very least 1GB of house.