is prepping a new version of its app for Android users, while it can hardly be classified as major, Android lice has discovered a few interesting tidbits hidden in the beta that could bring changes to the way we search interact with Assistant.

Assistant acts a little differently on whatever app you happen to be using it on, but it seems is working to streamline things a little. The latest update to the app contains a reference to a “keyboard_toggle” a “type_container,” presumably adding text comms in addition to voice, much like how Assistant works in the lo app. Android lice also found some more references to Assistant for Android ar, further confirming that is hard at work to bring its digital helper to the next version of the wearable OS.

so intriguing is a reference to something called search gestures, which seems to indicate a built-in shortcut to the search bar. As Android lice explains: “Users will be able to choose a default type of search, including options for In Apps l. Strangely, these are internally referred to as summons (for In Apps) web (for l).” In practice, the Search gestures functionality is likely similar to Apple’s spotlight search on iOS, where users can simply swipe down on the home screen to bring up the search bar.

The features here aren’t yet activated in the latest beta (though there is a new feature for doodle notifications), but if you’d like to poke around with it, you can side-load the -signed A from AMirror.

The impact on you at home: ile there isn’t anything here that will dramatically change the way we use the app, the little tweaks show that is working to bring a uniform experience for Assistant.