Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheet-based layouts. This revamp is now more widely rolling out.
These sheets, which feature more rounded corners, show the map in more places, thus emphasizing that background layer. In addition to helping preserve context when moving around the app, Google Maps with this redesign looks lighter.
You close these sheets for place listings with a new ‘x’ button in the top-right, or by swiping back from the left/right edge. With this redesign, you’re no longer able to swipe up on the search bar to just see the map.
The other big change is when searching for directions. That initial UI for entering your destination, with the transportation methods switcher and list of recent locations, is unchanged and still a fullscreen page.
However, once entered, the top of the screen just shows the start/end location. How…
Source 9to5google.com