There is a new approach to resize widgets in Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2

Earlier this week, Google introduced Pixel customers on its testing monitor a deal with with the discharge of Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2. Ever since, we’ve been retaining a watch out for all of the modifications and fixes it delivers — and now we simply noticed one other one.

Widgets in Android are a implausible manner so as to add some further performance to your property display — and there are many nice ones to select from. Past having our choose of the place we place widgets, a lot of them are additionally resizable. Taking part in together with your choices there was moderately easy to this point: Press and maintain on a widget to reposition it, after which as soon as it’s positioned the place you prefer it, drag the perimeters to resize.

With QPR3 Beta 2, nonetheless, customers are being launched to a barely completely different interface right here. As an alternative of resizing widgets solely by dragging across the anchor factors on their edges, Android is implementing a brand new pair of plus and minus buttons:

Whereas that also leaves us with the identical measurement choices as earlier than, we are able to see how this is perhaps an enchancment from an accessibility standpoint, particularly for customers who may wrestle with high quality motor management — fairly than dragging simply the correct distance and releasing on the good time, you possibly can obtain the identical outcomes with just a few faucets.

One other good thing about this new interplay is that it’s lastly clear while you’ve reached the widget’s limits — when you possibly can’t make it any bigger or smaller, you’ll not see the button for that choice introduced. And as you possibly can see within the demo above, the buttons work in each horizontal and vertical instructions.

Like many widgets themselves, we see these new resizing buttons choose up their coloration palette out of your system theme, and whereas we admit they nonetheless look a bit bizarre to our eyes, at the least the colours are proper!

As with every Beta characteristic, Google may very effectively change precisely how this seems to be and works previous to the secure launch — assuming it even sticks round. We’ll test in with these future builds and allow you to know if we spot any additional motion with these new controls.