A lot of buzz has been going around the Android community ever since the idea of an overhaul to the Google apps ecosystem, apparently codenamed Project Hera, was suggested. While the primary purpose of the alleged update is to improve the multitasking between Google core apps, it has been suggested that the update would also bring a new appearance to most of these apps. While we’ve been wondering whether these changes would be coming in a new version of Android or be updated in the standalone apps, Markus Exler from Google+ has seemingly found the answer to that question with the discover of the Project Hera location marker in the Google Maps apk.
As you can see in the above image, the icon on the left is the location marker that we are all very familiar with, however the icon on the right was also found in the Maps apk labelled “new_blue_dot.png”. As far as we can see, the colour scheme of the Project Hera location marker appears to match the colour scheme of previously leaked apps. It’s interesting that the icon was found in the latest Maps apk (which can be downloaded here), but it might suggest that the Project Hera updates are going be delivered through an update to the standalone apps rather than in an Android software update. With Google I/O just around the corner, we would expect more things like this to start popping up more and hopefully with an official announcement at the event itself next month.
What do you think about the Project Hera location marker? Are you a fan of the colour scheme of the suggested changes? Let us know what your thoughts are in the comments.
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