Google Drive adopts clean Material Design look on Android and iOS

Google Drive for iOS and Android gets a new look: Google details blog A set of changes aimed at simplifying and unifying the user experience across various services. Thus, Google Drive, like many of the firm’s apps and services – including the web version of the cloud service – will adopt Material Design.

Google Drive moves to Material Design

Announced in June 2014, this visual language is based on several principles, notably the presentation of information in the form of “cards”, increased use of grid-based layouts, animations and transitions, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows. It aims to make the user experience clearer and cleaner.

To implement this graphic manipulation, Google developed new elements designed to make it easier to use Google Drive on small screens. So far, when we opened Google Drive, a page greeted us with the name: my driver where the user can find their recent folders and files, At the top is a menu, the name of the page, a search function, an icon to sort the view, and additional sorting options.

A big blue button + allows you to create a folder/document or import a file or photo. Now, a more intuitive navigation bar appears at the bottom of the window. There are four icons: house, Favorites, Files shared with youand all files. This gives you faster access to your most important files. At the top, the search function now has a full-width search bar that makes finding files even faster.

when we’re in sight all files Three new tabs appear below the search bar: my drive, team rides (if you are a G Suite Enterprise, G Suite Business, or G Suite for Education subscriber) and computers (when content is backed up from a local machine). The “Actions” menu, that is, the menu that appears when you want to perform operations on a file, such as copying or sharing, has also been improved and now puts the most used actions at the top of the list.

Finally, the switch account menu moves to the right of the search bar. These changes are already visible in the latest version of Google Drive available for iOS. They will gradually appear in the Android version of the app from March 18, 2019. Google states that this rollout spans one to two weeks for each ecosystem.