Upcoming WhatsApp redesign for Android includes floating navigation bar and Meta AI button

Upcoming WhatsApp redesign for Android includes floating navigation bar and Meta AI button





The popular Meta messaging app, WhatsAppcontinues to add new features and news for Android and iOS users. But sometimes the news is not focused on offering new functions, but also on being able to access them more easily and quickly. From WaBetaInfo we see that the WhatsApp development team is carrying out a Redesign of your Android app. A redesign that reminds us of the iOS version.

WhatsApp prepares a new floating navigation bar for Android

According to WABetaInfo images, now the Navigation bar for Android has a new floating type lookin addition to adding a new element. As we see, a button has been added to Meta AIand the communities section of the application has been left aside. At the moment, the appearance that has been seen seems to be in the development phase, since the button to access the Meta AI appears in duplicate.

It seems that Meta wants to give more importance to its artificial intelligenceadding it to the navigation bar instead of having a floating icon above the create a new conversation icon. The image also shows its version for dark mode lovers.

The redesign of WhatsApp already appears in the Beta for Android

At the moment, the redesign is available on the Beta version for Android 2.26.38.10although not for all users. Being an aesthetic change, it is likely that we will soon be able to see it in the final version of the application, which all Android users will be able to access.

Article Editor: Juan Antonio Soto

Juan Antonio Soto

I am a Computer Engineer and my specialty is automation and robotics. My passion for hardware began at the age of 14 when I broke down my first computer: a 386 DX 40 with 4MB of RAM and 210MB of hard drive. I continue to give free rein to my passion in the technical articles I write for Geeknetic. I dedicate most of my free time to video games, contemporary and retro, on the more than 20 consoles I have, in addition to the PC.