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TL;DR
- Google has been creating an alterative notification interface for Gemini Stay, that includes call-like controls.
- Samsung One UI 7 introduces the Now Bar, a system of lock display screen widgets that help quite a few Google apps.
- It seems that Google can also deliver these call-like Gemini Stay controls to the Now Bar.
Samsung is difficult at work placing the ending touches on One UI 7 proper now, as Galaxy homeowners all over the place eagerly await their updates. With the discharge of the One UI 7 beta for Galaxy S24 telephones, we’ve been capable of take pleasure in an early preview of all of the modifications going down, together with the arrival of the Now Bar, an interactive widget on the backside of the lock display screen. As we wait to see how Samsung’s efforts progress, we’re already placing collectively some theories on how Now Bar may additional evolve.
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The Now Bar already helps plenty of common apps and providers, together with not simply Samsung’s personal, like Well being, but additionally Google stuff, like Maps. And whereas Now Bar works with Bixby, we’re interested by what might be within the works for its integration with Google Gemini.
Samsung and Google have already got a fairly chummy relationship relating to Gemini, and one that appears prefer it’s getting even stronger. We’ve already seen indicators of Samsung apps making ready support for new Gemini extensions, and Samsung may even allow you to exchange Bixby with Gemini for fast entry via your Galaxy’s side button. To these we could quickly be capable of add some new Gemini controls for the Now Bar.
Whereas digging via model 15.52.37.sa.arm64 of the Google app, we discover some code fragments referencing not simply the Now Bar itself, but additionally showing to reference some current work we uncovered on Gemini Stay. You would possibly recall that a few month again, we seemed into how Gemini Stay may undertake a brand new notification interface with phone-call-style controls, together with “cling up” and “maintain” buttons. Primarily based on our evaluation right here, plainly Google could need to provide an identical Gemini Stay interface for One UI 7’s Now Bar.
Proper now, this isn’t in any manner operational, and we haven’t even been capable of persuade One UI to offer us a preview of the interface. However with items starting to fall into place behind the scenes, there’s a good probability we would see this interplay able to go by the point that Samsung’s new Android pores and skin is able to hit steady and begin coming to extra of the present Galaxy lineup.
