Complimenting the Material Design 2.0 revamps rolled out to most of Google's apps by now, Google Drive iOS is now receiving a sleek, unified redesign with Android to follow in a week.
Google continually does this curious thing where they release the newest features and updates to its competitor's operating iOS operating system before its own.
The latest such example is a complete Material Design 2.0 redesign of Google's ‘Drive' online storage service.
The app's design has remained fairly consistent since it received the original Material Design 1.0 UI, with list or tile-based navigation and a navigation drawer on the left, and while functional it was certainly far from pretty (for what that's worth in a file manager).
In the new revamp expect to see more white-space (emptiness), as well as document previews in the emphasised ‘Home' tab, bottom-bar navigation (with a secondary top-navigation bar), and Google's unifying rounded search bar at the very top. Somewhat surprisingly the navigation drawer remains, as it's been exorcised from most Google apps at this point.
As well as the UI alterations shown in the thumbnail are more widespread tweaks to iconography, spacing, and a variety of other small details.
Indeed though, the new UI is overall much sleeker and more modern; it just needs a dark mode.
Source and images: 9TO5Google
