Google Drive for Android could soon get a more intuitive video player (APK teardown)

Google made a number of enhancements to the video playback expertise in Google Drive final yr. Along with lowering startup instances and buffering, the corporate rolled out an upgraded video player for Drive on desktop that includes a refreshed UI and more intuitive controls. Google now appears to be making ready to convey this upgraded video player to the Drive app for Android.

New code within the newest construct of Google Drive (model 2.25.110.0) has revealed that the upgraded video player could soon attain Android customers. Though the video player is unavailable to customers within the present launch, we’ve enabled it manually to offer you an early look.

As you possibly can see within the hooked up screenshot, the upgraded video player nonetheless has the progress bar on the backside of the display however shows more intuitive playback controls proper above it. As an alternative of the play/pause, skip, and rewind buttons showing in an overlay on the video, the brand new format has devoted buttons beneath the video.

Beneath the playback controls, you additionally get buttons to activate captions, change the playback pace, open settings, and swap to full-screen playback. The brand new placement ought to make these buttons simpler to entry, because the previous format shoved them within the backside proper nook beneath the progress bar.

Though the upgraded video player will not be stay within the newest Google Drive construct, it could roll out to customers with a subsequent launch. We’ll replace this submit as soon because it’s broadly accessible.