Old UI on the left, new UI in the middle and on the right The only other tweaks I've noticed is the green bar indication which section you're in being moved from above the navigation buttons to below, and the separation lines between conversations being removed, which is something Google has done with their other applications as they redesigned them to follow the Material Design guidelines. This blue color is also used for the navigation buttons at the bottom. The increased contrast makes text a lot easier to read. The fonts now use a thicker weight and are a blue color as opposed to the light grey they used previously. In addition to the new forms of navigation, there are some subtle tweaks as well. I think in this situation it would probably be better for Google to follow the guidelines of the platform they're designing for even if it means there has to be some fragmentation between the design of their apps on iOS and Android. This is a difficult situation, because while the navigation drawer is used within all of Google's applications on Android, it's discouraged by Apple and their design guidelines for iOS applications. The app now adopts the circular button for starting a new conversation that has become standard in Google's applications, as well as the navigation drawer which can be accessed using the hamburger button in the top left. The main screen of the application only receives a few changes, but they're noticable. All of the other changes that I note below exist within both versions, with the exception of UI elements that only exist in one of the layouts such as the navigation buttons at the bottom. The app has some issues with rendering on the iOS 9 beta so I can't take screenshots of them. ![]() There are a few other iPad specific changes, such as a green circular send button that only appears when you've inputted text. It still retains the bar to initiate a call with the person on the right hand side, which may pose a problem in the near future when users pull from that side to initiate multitasking on iPads running iOS 9. Although this is an iOS application, it feels very much like an Android application as it follows the same Material Design principles that Google's Android applications use.Ībove you can see the conversation view for the application running on an iPad. ![]() The update brings the version number to 4.0, and rightfully so as it comes with a new design for the entire application. Today Google shipped an update for their Hangouts application on iOS.
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