Apart from sharing that the Pixel Tablet is powered by Tensor G2 and has a Charging Speaker Dock, Google confirmed extra of the Android UI and a number of Smart Show-inspired screens.

Android for pill

Google explicitly mentioned that the “basis for Pixel Tablet is Android, together with Materials You.” 

And simply as our Pixel telephones have at all times been the finest and purest expression of Android, Pixel Tablet is the finest approach to expertise Android on a pill.

To that finish, we see what the Pixel homescreen appears like on tablets. At a Look, which is already getting a few upgrades with the Pixel 7, seems in the high nook and is once more left-aligned, regardless of all that obtainable horizontal house. Apart from apps, the dock features a Search bar with voice/Assistant and Google Lens entry. The homescreen appears to be in a 6×4 configuration.

It’s fascinating what apps Google selected to put and spotlight on the Pixel Tablet homescreen. We see Recorder in a sign that Google can be updating the UI for tablets, which might look lots like the present panorama design. Together with Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Maintain, the presence of Recorder displays how Google advised us it needs the Pixel Tablet to supply a very good productiveness expertise, particularly with the Workspace suite of apps.

In the meantime, the pill’s content material consumption facet is mirrored by Google TV and YouTube, in addition to Pictures, although that’s additionally meant to mirror how picture modifying can be nicer on a bigger display. A extra curious inclusion is the Private Security app. It’s not clear how precisely that may work.

We get one other look at the dual-column Settings app, which is once more set to Wallpaper & fashion. We see that the lockscreen with none notifications simply facilities the two-line clock. In any other case, alerts seem at the proper with a most of 5 strains and icons for every part else in a tray. Beneath At a Look, we see a good bigger media participant. 

Lastly on the lockscreen, we’ve got a House shortcut that takes you to sensible machine controls. The primary UI is unchanged and only a grid, however tapping reveals how controls seem as a right-aligned pop-up window for the Nest Thermostat. This UI preserves context and it will be good if that factor made extra of an look on Android. 

Smart Show UI on Pixel Tablet

When the Pixel Tablet is hooked up to the Charging Speaker Dock and displaying slideshows, the time and At a Look seem in the nook, whereas the top-right contains a Solid icon that notes “This pill.” 

Accessing Google Assistant when docked masses a backside sheet UI that spans the whole width of the display. (Going barely narrower wouldn’t harm.) That is the reverse of the Nest Hub displaying command transcripts at the high, whereas Google is taking heavy inspiration for docked music controls. The Now Enjoying display is similar to the Smart Show model with giant cowl artwork, scrubber, play/pause, shuffle, rewind, and even Solid controls.

Android pill apps

Google additionally supplied a look at a handful of new tablet-optimized apps, and famous the way it “partnered carefully with builders to verify apps make the most of giant display options like cut up display and stylus help.”

• Google House: The design proven at I/O was based mostly on the earlier iteration. This new one nonetheless makes use of a navigation rail, however appears significantly better with 5 tabs as an alternative of simply two. We see the Favorites display make the most of the extra house for what needs to be an important pill expertise. We additionally get a look at the digital camera stream UI.
• Google Camera: Taking cues from model 8.7 on the Pixel 7 and 7 Professional, we’ve got app controls housed at the left. This features a top-left nook settings dropdown and a pill-shaped controller.
• Google One: One other look at the app, which appears like the web site, and remains to be not but dwell. 

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