Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR Google is testing a new grid-style UI for the Wallet home screen which focuses on “favorited” passes.
The app will automatically favorite the first four passes for users, though these can be manually unstarred or added to later.
The updated interface includes more prominent colored tiles and introduces a split-style floating action button for additional features.
We’ve previously spotted Google working on a new UI for Google Wallet, one that better accommodates your favorite passes for quicker access. At the time, we didn’t know exactly what this new UI would look like, whether the favorited passes would be highlighted on the Wallet app’s home screen, or appear directly on the phone’s home screen. Thanks to a recent Google Wallet update, we now have a much better idea of how favoriting passes would work in the new UI.
In a future release of Google Wallet, users will see a notice explaining how to star (or unstar) their favorite passes to add (or remove) them from the app’s home screen.
The notice mentions that the first four passes are already favorited for the user by Google. However, in case the user disagrees with the selection, they can unstar the pass to remove it from the app home screen.
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We managed to activate the new favorites UI within Google Wallet v26.3.856536501 to give you an early look:
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