Google He is aware that users of Apple devices are not very supportive of using their applications, for different reasons, and it seems that he wants to reverse this situation. For now, he wants his applications to be more visually integrated into the Apple ecosystem.
And for this it is recoding all of them using the design by UIKit, Apple's visual environment that developers use to build third-party iOS and iPadOS applications. After ten years of the existence of such applications, it was time that Google made a gesture towards Apple users.
The Google application suite for iOS and iPadOS, that is, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Drive and YouTube, have been using their own user interfaces inherited from the operating system Android for almost a decade.
Now, at last this is going to change, and Apple users will have a visual experience of these applications integrated into the ecosystem of the iPhone y iPad. A change that Google has been working on for a long time and it seems that it is already well advanced.
Jeff verkoeyen, head of design of Google applications for iOS, has explained in his account of Twitter that Google is working under the design of UIKit, Apple's tool to create interfaces in applications for iPhone and iPad. He explained that previously UIKit was not viable due to the "gaps" in their design language, but that currently they can already transform their applications using this tool.
iOS 14 paved the way for change
Since updating iOS 14 Google developers have seen that UIKit's design has improved enough that it can be widely used in their iOS and iPadOS applications. Since the beginning of this year, Google's design team for Apple platforms began to work on modifying all its applications adapting them to the environment that UIKit offers.
Verkoeyen has not given a specific date for the launch of new versions of its applications for iPhone and iPad. It has simply communicated that these updates are very advanced. The proof is that lately Google is hiring new designers for the application development team for the iOS and iPadOS system. So we will still have to wait….