Google Drive begins rolling out tablet redesign with navigation rail

To assist these getting work accomplished with an Android tablet, Google is rolling out a large-screen redesign of Google Drive, full with a navigation rail.

Announced on the official Workspace Updates weblog, these with workspace accounts enrolled for “Rapid Release” ought to quickly see a brand new search for Google Drive on Android tablets. Most notably, the redesign ditches the underside navigation bar in favor of a side-mounted navigation rail.

In addition to the standard tabs (resembling Home, Starred, Shared, and Files), the rail now additionally incorporates the “plus” FAB for creating new recordsdata/folders, in addition to a button to increase/collapse the drawer. As a part of the change, the highest search bar now not makes use of the total width of the display, whereas buttons for assist, settings, and your profile have been added to the top-right nook. Below that search bar, the tabs for issues like “Suggested” recordsdata and “Notifications” now take up a lot much less area.

Broadly talking, this new design for Google Drive appears well-optimized for benefiting from the extra display actual property of an Android tablet. As proven in Google’s offered side-by-side instance, extra particular person recordsdata and controls may be seen on-screen whereas remaining comparatively uncluttered.

For these not enrolled for Rapid Release, this tablet-ready design of Google Drive ought to arrive to extra Android customers beginning on April 3.

The redesign arrives on the heels of Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides net apps all getting a brand new coat of paint by means of Material You. Between an elevated emphasis on bigger screens and the latest collection of Material You upgrades, Google has been pouring a big quantity of design work into its man Workspace apps, a development we hope will proceed.

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