Pixel Tablet will have a new interface for Assistant and Discover

Google is preparing the software foundations for its new Pixel Tablet, expected for 2023, and after having revealed some new features of the user interface, it would also be working on a new design for Google Assistant And Discover.

But he is not alone Pixel Tabletthe research giant wants to redesign the interface for all large screen devices, and Android 12L is the most striking example of this, but it has now released guidelines for new apps that will want to take advantage of them.

Let’s start with the news specific to yours Tablet. To discover them, the always attentive guys from 9to5Google, that have decompiled the latest beta of Google Search, version 13.42, managing to enable the new functions.

Google Assistant

When activated Google Assistant on Pixel Tablet, you will see at the bottom of the screen the “light bar“, which will adapt to the length of the display.

As for the answers, however, you will find them on right side of the screen instead of the center, which allows the app in use to remain visible.

Turning to Google Discoverthe feed from Google to browse news about their interests, a complete redesign of the interface for the Pixel Tablets is planned, but at the moment it is still a open construction site.

For now, the only changes exclusive to Pixel Tablet concern adding a welcome greeting and a different type of display.

The welcome greeting, like “Good evening, Dylan“, remembers that of Nest Hub and is placed at the top of the feed, in place of the search bar and of weather information.

As for the visualization of the feed, as you can see from the image below it will be a two columns instead of single column, in order to better exploit the space in width of the screen.

Google’s guidelines for large-screen devices

But Google wants to revolutionize the user interface of all devices with large screens, tablets or foldable ones, and at theAndroid Developer Summit 2022 presented the app development guidelines regarding Social media and communication, multimedia content, productivity, shopping and reading.

For Social media and communicationGoogle wants them to be included more conversations in order to take advantage of the increased workspace to create, drag and drop content between applications and share them.

A screen of big dimensions enables the ultimate viewing experience for movies, animated films, and television, and apps need to take full advantage of it. Here are Google’s design proposals.

The telephone has now become the reference tool for daily activities. For the productivity, large screens allow for immense possibilities.

But also thee-commerce can take advantage of the new possibilities offered by tablets and foldables. Developers can pack multiple products into one large screen online showcase with more options to choose from, more ways to shop for greater customer engagement and retention.

The eReader they are the best choice for reading eBook, but why not take advantage of your own Android deviceespecially if equipped with a large screen? Larger screens allow you to better read eBooks, blogs, news, sports pages or whatever plain text.