With Google’s newest version of Android tipped off for an October release, there’s bound to be details trickling out up to the final announcement. There is now new information regarding one of the possible cosmetic changes to Android. Yesterday, Google Korean IME (the Korean keyboard) was updated and provided a screenshot that revealed a change in color to the icons in the status bar. Thankfully someone saved the screenshot before it was removed from the Play Store listing. Currently the status bar is blue; however, the screenshot (above) has a gray color. This would be the first major change to the status bar since the change from Gingerbread’s green to the blue in Ice Cream Sandwich.
What is noteworthy, if this change is really going to be made, is that this would move the status bar toward the feel of the status bars on both iOS and Windows Phone. iOS features whites and so does Windows Phone; however, Google may simply allow multiple color options.
If you take a look at the screenshot below closely, you may notice something odd. The debug icon is clearly a slice of Key Lime Pie and not a piece of a Kit Kat. This is probably because Key Lime Pie is still the internal name at Google for Android 4.4 or Google didn’t update the graphics yet.
Source: Google Play Store
Via: Android Police
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