After the widget concerning the world of finance, introduced several months ago, Google is now working on the one concerning sports widget: thanks to the analysis of the APK of the Google App for Android, a new widget has emerged which shows the results and the scheduled matches of our favorite teams. Let’s see how it will be.
Google App is preparing a new widget for sports
Google already allows you to select sports interests, with the possibility of indicating favorite sports , competitions and teams (even more than one, of course): whether you are a fan of football , basketball or other sports, within the Google App (or among the notifications ) upcoming matches, recent results or results of current matches are indicated. In fact, there is a lack of a nice widget in this regard, and it seems that the Mountain View house is about to remedy that.
The new widget shows the teams followed and their upcoming, live or recently finished matches: the matches are displayed accompanied by date and time, score and name of the championship. There are two screens that can be shown: one dedicated to the matches of the teams you follow and one for the trending ones. One tap and the full tab within Google search opens.
The UI is in line with the Material You (with dynamic theme), and the dimensions can be changed as desired to better adapt the widget to the home page. At the top right we can see the button to manually perform a refresh.
At the moment the new sports widget of the Google App does not seem to be available for everyone, but what we have seen above has been enabled with the beta version 14.49.38.29 , so there is no harm in giving it a try. In any case, we are likely to see it expand over the next few weeks. To check that you have the latest version of the Google App on board you can follow the badge below. To join the beta program you can instead go to this link . Let us know if you were able to try out the new widget.
About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see various lines of code within that hint at possible future features. Keep in mind that Google may or may not ever ship these features, and our interpretation of what they are may be imperfect. We’ll try to enable those that are closer to being finished, however, to show you how they’ll look in case that they do ship.