Along with redesigning Android app icons, it looks like Google has more plans to revamp their mobile OS, and that involves changing the Home button into a “Google” button.
According to Android Police, Google is planning to experiment with new navigation buttons, with the back button working as it always has, the multitasking button, and the Google button triggering a search prompt from wherever you are. To get back to the home screen, you’d have to use the multitasking button, which sounds pretty inconvenient to me. Looks like Google is following Microsoft here, who has forced all Windows Phone OEMs to include a Bing Search button on all their devices. In Google’s case the branding is even more prominent. Then again, this just might be a rumor that doesn't work out.
Another report from the same source is that Google wants to make their “Ok Google” voice command an even deeper part of Android, no longer constrained to just the home screen or Search app. Instead, Google wants voice control to extend to a wide variety of individual apps, making it ‘Everywhere.’ The hope is apparently to make users more familiar with voice commands.
Google I/O is just a couple months away so I guess we’re going to have to wait until then to find out if this is all true. If it is, there’s big changes coming to Android, eh?
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