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Google details new Drive, Docs, Sheets, Sildes, and Keep optimizations for Android tablets
Google details new Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Keep optimizations for Android tablets and other large-screen devices.
Google has slowly been updating its apps to offer a better experience on Android tablets and other large-screen devices. Since the Android 12L debut, the company has updated several apps in its portfolio with new features and optimizations to make better use of the extra screen real estate. Now, it has detailed some upcoming changes for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Keep, which will improve usability on Android tablets and other large-screen devices.
Google Keep update could deliver highly requested text formatting features
Google Keep could be getting text formatting in the near future. Hints of the feature were found in a teardown of the latest update.
A teardown of the latest version of Google Keep has revealed that a major addition could be on the horizon -- text formatting support. The addition of text formatting would be monumental for the note-taking app, as the app has been fairly bare-bones for quite some time. Although Google recently updated the app with new widgets and a redesigned UI, the company hasn't added any noteworthy features since its initial release in 2013.
Google is investigating this rather annoying Keep bug on Samsung phones
Google is investigating a rather annoying bug that is affecting Keep numbered lists on some Samsung phones running Android 12.
Google Keep is one of the best note-taking apps available out there. It's simple, free, cross-platform, and gets the job done as you'd expect it to. However, for the past two months, some users on Google Forums have been complaining about a bug in Keep that affects numbered lists. This issue has only been reported by some Samsung users running Android 12, though. The company has confirmed that it's investigating it, but it hasn't shared a date for the fix yet.
Google Keep's Material You update is here with new widgets as well
Google's note-taking app, Google Keep, is getting a Material You refresh with several design changes and new widgets. Read on to learn more.
Soon after showcasing the new Material You design language at I/O 2021, Google started rolling out design changes to its apps based on the new guidelines. With the Android 12 stable release right around the corner, the company has significantly ramped up the Material You rollout. In the last week alone, Google has rolled out Material You design changes to four of its apps, including Google Phone, Google Photos, Google Duo, and Google Drive. Google also showcased the Material You redesign for its note-taking app, Google Keep, and it has now started rolling out to users.
Material You support will soon roll out to Google Keep
Google Keep will soon get Material You support, the latest evolution of Google's Material design language. Check it out here!
Android 12 is just around the corner, and Google will soon be releasing the first stable builds of Android 12 for Pixel smartphones. Before that update rolls out, product teams across Google are working to update their apps in accordance with Material You, the latest evolution of Google’s Material design language. We saw a ton of Google Workspace productivity suite apps including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and more get updates to support Material You. Now, Google's notetaking app, Google Keep, is getting a new lick of paint.
Google Keep will lose its Chrome app in February
Google Keep will no longer be available as a Chrome App from February 2020 as the company goes in on Progressive Web Apps.
Google Keep will lose its Chrome App in February 2021 (via 9to5Google), as part of the company’s long term plan to kill off all Chrome Apps in favor of universal progressive web apps. Users of Google’s note-taking app who access it through the Chrome app are being greeted with a banner warning that “Keep will be moving from the Chrome app to your browser soon” and suggesting that users upgrade to the extension and website instead. According to a Google support page, you can still create your own Keep app by going to the Keep website and creating a windowed Chrome shortcut of it.
Smart actions can now set reminders from notifications of other apps
There's a new button showing up to let you quickly create a reminder with your favorite apps directly from the notification shade.
One of Android's best features is the contextual actions that show up in the notification shade. The smart actions can give you easy responses to messages, a shortcut to copy a code, quick access to Google Maps navigation, and many more things. Now, there's a new button showing up to let you quickly create a reminder with your favorite apps.
Google Keep 5.20 prepares to let you create drawings from the lockscreen
Google Keep 5.20 is now rolling out in the Play Store, and it hints at a new secure drawing feature that lets you create Keep drawings from the lockscreen.
A new version of Google Keep, Google's cross-platform service for note-taking, rolled out today on the Google Play Store. I downloaded version 5.20.081.01.40 on my Pixel 4, and after comparing the resources with the previous version, I found hints at an upcoming feature. In a future version of the Keep app for Android, you may be able to create new drawings while your device is locked.
Google Drive tests a new search UI and starting tab setting while Google Keep tests bringing back the FAB
Google Drive is testing a new search UI and starting tab setting in the latest update for the app, while Google Keep is testing a redesigned bottom bar.
Google offers a vast suite of apps on Android and much like other developers on the platform, the company routinely pushes updates for its apps. The updates often introduce new features and improvements, and sometimes we're able to discover upcoming features by reverse-engineering the app's APK. If at times a feature is near completion we also manage to manually trigger it before it rolls out to users, giving us a fair bit of insight regarding its functionality. For instance, we were recently able to activate manual face tagging in Google Photos and we got a clear look at how the feature would work when released. Now, we've managed to trigger a couple of upcoming features in Google Drive and Google Keep.
Google Keep is the latest Google app to get a dark mode
If you're a fan of dark themes, there has arguably never been a better time to use Android. The latest Google app to get the dark mode Keep Notes.
Dark. Mode. It's all the rage these days. Google is updating apps left and right with new dark themes. Android Q has a system-wide dark mode built-in. If you're a fan of dark-themed software, there has arguably never been a better time to use Android. The latest Google app to get the dark touch is Google Keep Notes.
Google Assistant support for 3rd-party notes & lists apps begins rolling out
Google Assistant can now integrate with other 3rd-party services including Any.do, Bring!, Google Keep, AnyList, Remember the Milk, Picniic, and more.
Google Assistant is great for a lot of things, but being able to maintain lists and a set of notes is a great feature that gets overlooked. The company originally let the service tap into Google Keep in order to maintain our shopping lists. However, that was suddenly changed and said shopping lists began showing up in the company's Google Express application. This year at Google I/O the company said they would stop forcing this and allow the virtual assistant to use 3rd-party applications for lists and notes. We are just starting to see reports about this new feature rolling out to a select number of people.
Download: Google Keep Notes with revamped Google Material Theme
Google Keep Notes is the latest Google application to receive a new UI based on the Google Material Theme design guidelines.
We first heard about a revamp to Google Material Design back in February referencing the redesign of Android's design language. The refresh was officially announced at Google I/O 2018. The Material Theming tools allow any brand to create their own style of Material Design. Google's Material Theme has rolled out to Google Photos, Google Drive, Android Messages, Google Phone, Google Calendar, Contacts, Google Calculator, and Chrome. But, there are still a few applications left to receive the new design. One of those apps was Google Keep, which was recently renamed to Keep Notes.
Google Keep now lets you indent items in lists for better organizing
Google Keep finally gained an option to indent items in lists! This feature will help you better organize all your lists.
Google Keep was released back in March 2013. Since then, it's been my go-to note-taking app just because it's so simple—maybe a little too simple. I've watched it gain a lot of new features, removed some features, etc over the years. While I'd be more than happy to see a Material Design 2.0 refresh of Keep, I'm still happy with any new feature Google rolls out. Keep is now getting a pretty nice feature update: indenting items in lists.