Saturday, February 4, 2017

Google Now Launcher disappears from healthcare app store – NU.nl

Google Now Launcher, the app that enables Android users to their home screen can customize, disappears in the course of the current quarter from the Google Play Store.

That it appears from an e-mail that Google has sent to companies that use Google Mobile Services (GMS). The e-mail is in the hands of Android Police.

GMS is a collection of apps and interfaces that Google makes available to smartphonefabrikanten to standard provide on their devices. Google Now Launcher is also currently a part of, but there comes march 1, change.

From that moment the app is no longer in GMS and will phones that Google Now Launcher still installed will have to be disapproved by Google. In addition, the app will somewhere for april from the Google Play Store are met. A specific date, Google has not yet communicated.

The app is from that moment no more to download for new users. For current users there are no fundamental changes, except that Google the app no longer updates will be provided.

Intelligent assistant

An important part of the Google Now Launcher is the integration of Googles smart stemassistent Google Now, the predecessor of Google Assistant.

Thanks to the Launcher app, users can access from the home screen with one swipe to see the information that this smart assistant collects. Also, the app home screen itself is adjusted to match that of Google’s own Nexus phones, which have a default version of the Android operating system. That way, users can the skin around that many other Android manufacturers by default on their devices.

Google Pixel

Google has for his recent Pixel-phones also have a separate Launcher app, but that is only available for the Pixel, and the Pixel XL. May get more in the future Android phones support the app. Initially, it was the Google Now Launcher also only available for Google’s own Nexus smartphones.

By: NU.nl

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