Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google Meet for Android is getting a revamped new name display that offers it a extra trendy look.
- The up to date Begin a name display presents related contact solutions that can assist you shortly begin conferences.
- Google has additionally added a Code shortcut to the app’s residence display that lets customers begin conferences with a code.
Google gave Meet a much-needed revamp earlier this 12 months with an up to date video name expertise, new instruments to assist customers share hyperlinks and reactions, and a few new options. The corporate is now rolling out an identical redesign for the brand new name display that offers it a extra trendy look.
Google first launched the brand new ‘Begin a name’ display to enterprise Google Meet customers late final 12 months, and it’s now rolling out to free Google Account customers (by way of 9to5Google). It includes a pill-shaped Search bar on the high, adopted by bigger buttons to create assembly hyperlinks, schedule conferences, and create a brand new group.
It additionally includes a new Ideas part that solely surfaces latest contacts in a big grid, as an alternative of displaying all of your contacts in a listing. This new structure ought to make it simpler for customers to shortly begin a gathering with out scrolling by way of their total contact checklist.
Moreover, Google Meet is getting a brand new residence display shortcut to begin conferences with a code. It seems throughout the search bar on the house display, and tapping on it opens the ‘Be a part of with a code’ web page.
These modifications are stay in model 266 of Google Meet for Android, which just lately began rolling out to customers. For those who don’t see the brand new Begin a name display or Code shortcut in your system even after putting in the replace, you may attempt drive closing and relaunching the app.