Google Contacts is an app that most people who use an Android phone should be familiar with, as it’s the default contacts app for Google phones, such as Pixel devices. The service’s core functionality and purpose has remained the same since it first became available for Gmail in 2007: organize your contacts list.Google likes to frequently adjust the user interfacein its software suite, and Contacts is next on that list, with a pending update certainly being an upgrade, at least in one area.
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Contacts is being updated to version 4.26, and while it will come with general bug fixes, some of its enhancements are hidden behind flags. The always reliableAssembleDebug of TheSpAndroid activated those flagsand showcased the UI changes hidden behind the surface. Additionally, a new widget is available on users’ home screens with the flags activated.
With the new UI enabled, on the Contacts app’s main page, a filter icon with three horizontal lines can be pressed to show or hide navigational chips, like “Phone,” “Email,” and “Company.” Selecting someone’s email now brings up a newbottom sheetcard, which seems to get rid of the functionality and need of the sidebar and hamburger icon. Lastly, a new “plus” icon is now visible in the search bar to quickly add a new contact, supplementing the existingfloating action button.
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There’s also a new messages widget that you should be able to use through Google Contacts on your home screen. The app will allow you to select one specific contact to display messages from, which should, in theory, make it easier to text whoever is your most important contact quickly. AssembleDebug has no information regarding the public rollout of this feature, so it will remain hidden behind flags for now.
Last October, Google Contacts rolled out a widget thatprovided a shortcut to one specific contact, so this new, upcoming widget seems like a good continuation of what came before it. It’s not the latest update that Contacts has brought to the table, either, as Google was working on adedicated section for custom ringtonesas of this past December. While this UI redesign won’t be classified as an overhaul,Google Maps’ latest changescertainly can be looked at in that way.
