The arrival of Android 12 and its Material You interface meant the revival of widgets. Not only did Google start redesigning all of its widgets, which had been outdated for years, but it also started releasing new widgets.
And a new widget is coming to our Android devices soon. Google has confirmed that with the launch of the new Google Maps nearby traffic widget
Nearby traffic widget
Currently Google Maps for Android It offers us a widget and five shortcuts, currently the nearby traffic widget is a shortcut, which opens the Google Maps app to show us the traffic.
Well, that will change very soon, as the traffic shortcut will become a widget, which will allow us to see nearby traffic directly from the home screen of our Android device, just as it has been happening for months on iOS.
The new always nearby traffic widget will show us this information for the current locationwhich at a glance on the home screen we can know how is the local traffic before leaving home, work or anywhere, with what saves us from having to open Google Maps.
As in the Google Maps app, the widget will represent traffic status with green, orange, and red lines. We can touch the magnifying glass button of the widget to zoom in or zoom out the map
Google has announced that the new Google Maps Nearby Traffic Widget will be out in the next few weeksso we just have to wait for this new widget available to add to our home screen in the next few days.
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