Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
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- Google is testing a new effect for the translation button in the Google lens.
- The translation button has a blue-purple ring that will pulse when there is text to translate.
- The change appears in the latest beta to the Google app.
Google often likes to tinker with the user interface of the products. So you can sometimes see something like a button moved to another place, a new tab in a Google app, and so on. However, these adjustments do not go to the company’s design language, and that is what makes one of Google’s latest changes a bit of a surprise.
Discovered by 9to5googleTech giant’s last UI adjustment involves the translation button in Google lens. Normally, this button over the sheet appears in a solid material you color. However, in the latest Google app Beta (version 16.6), this button has had an interesting effect.
When the phone detects text that can be translated, a blue-purple ring is formed around the button. That ring then continues to glow, but also stretches the former static button. The animation works well as a way of drawing your attention, and asks you to interact with it to start the translation process.
We can’t help but notice how different this is compared to Google’s existing design language. However, something resembles something Overlay gemini recently received