Google Search bar widget redesign provides Dynamic Coloration on Android

You’ve lengthy been in a position to regularly customise the Google Search widget, however a redesign takes away many of the choices.

Replace 8/16: This widget redesign is now extensively rolling out to the secure channel (model 15.31). Go to Google app Settings and search for “Customise Search widget” close to the underside of that record. You may need to take away your present Search bar earlier than the brand new choice seems.

Unique 8/3: Beforehand, you needed to first place the “Google” — because it’s known as — widget in your homescreen after which open the Google app > faucet profile photograph for account menu > Settings > Search widget > Customise widget. Launched in 2018, you could possibly change the:

• Bar brand: “Google” or multicolored ‘G’ on the left
• Bar form: Rectangle with sharp corners, Rectangle with rounded corners, or tablet
• Bar shade: Darkish background with four-color icons, gentle with grey, black with white, or customized with hue and saturation changes
• Bar shading: Slider from See by to Stable

The brand new “Customise Search widget” method can be accessed from Google app settings, however with fewer choices. Particularly, Google now solely enables you to select from set shade themes. There’s Gentle or Darkish backgrounds with System set because the default. The Lens, microphone, and G icons keep on with the official four-color design, with the corporate possible desirous to retain extra management over the model. It’s just like how the Google app on iOS now gives totally different icons. 

Of word is the addition of a Gadget theme, or Dynamic Coloration. Beforehand, this was solely accessible on the search bar on the backside of the Pixel Launcher whenever you enabled Themed icons. 

The one different customization choice is a Transparency slider with “Undo” within the nook to reset. You faucet “Add” or “Save” to position it in your homescreen. 

We’re presently seeing this Search widget redesign on Pixel and Samsung Galaxy with the Google app beta (model 15.30.x). It’s not but extensively rolled out.