Google’s iOS app gets an Android-like makeover

First debuted with Android L, Material Design is Google’s new in-house unified design ethos, Material Design. Boiled down, it’s a series of UI/UX tricks that makes Google’s web properties not feel unified with one another, but like digital paper, folding and unfolding underneath your fingertips no matter what device you use.

Android L, of course, has already seen a Material Design revamp, but now we’re starting to see Material Design creep to Google’s iOS app.

Google Search has just been updated with a completely new design for iOS, updating the app with the company’s Material Design language. The app’s updates include Google Maps integration, a new universal Google button (which, under the principles of Material Design, does different things depending on the context in which you push it), and Recents, which works a lot like Android’s apps switcher and pulls up a carousel of recently visited website.

In addition to all of that, Google has also optimised Google Search for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, so it will now take full advantage of their screens.

It’s a great update to an already excellent app. You can grab it from the App Store for free here.

Source: Google

John Brownlee

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