Ever since the Android web Market was launched, one of my main gripes with its UI (let's not talk about content discovery here) was screenshot navigation. There were 2 basic problems - you could not click Next or Previous as those buttons did not exist, and the only way to close a screenshot close-up was by finding and clicking a tiny X button.
Most modern "lightbox"-style galleries already solved the aforementioned problems by adding easy navigation buttons and allowing you to click anywhere on the screen to dismiss the close-up. Today, Google quietly did just that, and then some.
Here are the 5 new features I just spotted that weren't there this morning:
- the Next and Previous buttons finally allow easy navigation
- clicking on the close-up of a screenshot is equivalent to pressing Next
- left and right keyboard arrow keys are equivalent to Previous and Next (hooray!)
- the X button is gone - you can now close any image close-up by clicking anywhere on the screen
- in-line rotation buttons which let you turn those occasional sideways images the right way
Here, have a look:
Visit your favorite app in the Market and check it out for yourself.
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