{"id":218417,"date":"2026-02-28T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/gemini-live-rolling-out-floating-pill-redesign-on-androidu\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:50:09","slug":"gemini-live-rolling-out-floating-pill-redesign-on-androidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/gemini-live-rolling-out-floating-pill-redesign-on-androidu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini Live rolling out floating pill redesign on Android[U]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/28\/gemini-live-floating-redesign\/\">Gemini Live rolling out floating pill redesign on Android[U]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/28\/gemini-live-floating-redesign\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/28\/gemini-live-floating-redesign\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-28 08:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since launch, Gemini Live has primarily been a fullscreen experience, but Google is now rolling out a floating pill redesign on Android.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-703187\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2\/28<\/strong>: This Gemini Live redesign is seeing a wider rollout for Google app beta users (version 17.7) in the past day. The overlay revamp that adds the Tools menu is still seeing limited availability.  <\/p>\n<p>Original 2\/2: At the moment, exiting the fullscreen Gemini Live interface gives you a pill-shaped indicator in the status bar that makes use of Android\u2019s existing phone controls.<\/p>\n<p>This redesign gives Live a floating pill that visually matches the Gemini overlay for text prompts. It can be accessed in two ways:<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Activate the Gemini overlay and tap the Live icon at the right<\/li>\n<li>Open the Gemini app, launch the fullscreen Gemini Live UI, and exit to your homescreen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This pill lets you start sharing your camera or screen, mute the microphone, and end Live. If you haven\u2019t started a conversation yet, the keyboard lets you switch to the Gemini overlay. Otherwise, it stops Live and opens the text transcript.<\/p>\n<p>The container features the Gemini Live waveform in the background, while the text transcription appears above. You can turn those on\/off from the top-right corner.<\/p>\n<p>If you do something else on your phone, the pill collapses into a circle that you can move around the screen. Tap to expand or swipe down to close (like a chathead).<\/p>\n<p>This redesign retains the fullscreen interface (just open the Gemini app again), while video sharing uses the full UI.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, we\u2019re only seeing this rolled out on one of our devices. However, it\u2019s appearing with the stable version (17.3) of the Google app. We\u2019re due for a big Gemini Live model update, and this interface likely accompanies it.<\/p>\n<p>The floating circle could particularly be used during computer use interactions. Google\u2019s previous demo showed a similar interface for Project&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/28\/gemini-live-floating-redesign\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemini Live rolling out floating pill redesign on Android[U] https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/28\/gemini-live-floating-redesign\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-28 08:45:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/Gemini-Live-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-218417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218419,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218417\/revisions\/218419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}