Last week, Google announced that it was optimizing Widgets for Android tablets, and the updated Google Drive widget now features an interesting circular design that has never been seen before in Material You. Google has specifically updated the “Drive quick actions” shortcut to quickly launch a new document in a document, table or slideshow.
This replaces the plus icon in the bar layout that just opened the bottom creation table. This new shortcut allows you to quickly open the Drive cloud drive with others, search, upload, and launch the camera. By default, everything is arranged in a 3×2 configuration.
The new Widgets are larger in size, making the Google Drive Widget a circle that is more than just reminiscent of a rotary dial. This is the new shape of the Material You widget, which previously had a distinctive x-shaped (or petal) look. It’s definitely striking and only available for applications with lots of shortcuts.
On tablets, you can find this new circular widget configuration on your tablet using Google Drive version 2.22.357.1. This new design will not appear on Android phones.
