Although there are differences between manufacturers, the experience of most Android phones is already very similar. Pixel mobiles are already the gold standard, and many brands are already content with making minimal changes; The reason is simple, everyone already knows what works and what doesn’t.
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Much of the blame for this lies with Google Now. This “launcher” was launched as a representative of Google’s vision of the future for smartphones; and ten years later, we can say that all his predictions have come true.
Say goodbye to a Google Now Launcher
Google Now Launcher was a launcher, a type of application that determines the interface of our mobile. When it launched with the Nexus 5 in 2013, it was billed as a modernization of Android’s core interface, including features and functionality we hadn’t seen until then, but have already become something basic in any Android mobile.
Google wanted this mobiles were windows to the internet, rather than standalone devices running software locally like a personal computer. It was from Google Now that we started to see the integration of Google services into Android, culminating in the separation of the operating system from these services so that they could be updated more often.
Google Now Launcher, as the name suggests, offered direct access to Google Now, which is what the mobile personal assistant was called before the creation of Google Assistant. Was integrated with the Google app for Android, and allowed us to access the famous inf ormation sheets, which presented data likely to interest us such as the weather in our region or the news in our region. It also offered assistant access with voice commands like “Ok Google”.
Google Now paved the way for Android to follow
Android phones today come with all of these features as standard, along with Discover maps or the aforementioned Google Assistant. But it was the Google Now launcher that revealed to us the possibilities it had; It should be taken into account that, until then, no one had dared to attempt such integration of web services in a mobile.
Although Android continued to evolve, Google Now Launcher was still available for older devices. The truth is that its existence no longer made sense, since all its functions were already present in the launchers of the Pixels and of any manufacturer of Android mobiles. However, the Google Now code was never removed and it continues to be integrated into the Google app that we all have on our mobiles. In 2017, Google warned that it was going to abandon the development of Google Now, and now it will comply with this warning.
In 9to5Google discovered that the new beta version of the Google app includes a message warning that Google Now it will stop working in apriland that the launcher will automatically switch to the one provided by default on the device.
Even if you think this news does not concern you if you have a relatively new mobile, it could in fact affect you. If Google removes the necessary code for the launcher, it is expected that the Google application will be lighter, which should result in a smaller download size and less storage space occupied.
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