Google has been receiving complaints and criticisms regarding its share sheet for its Google Chrome and Google Photos, as its features are currently limited and require users to press more tabs to see other options.
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The share sheet allows users to pick the platform being used to share content. Google is working to move the Google Chrome browser application to the native Android system share sheet to improve its performance.
Moving Chrome Browser to Native Android System Share Sheet
Google has now begun to migrate Chrome share hub to Android's native share sheet. According to a report from Phone Arena, users will have to force disable the Chrome share hub to enable the system share sheet in Chrome on Android.
Toggling this will force Chrome to use Android's system share menu instead of the previous one. The new share menu consists of Copy and Nearby Share as two options that let users share the link directly to the various applications.
But it seems like Google heard the feedback and pain points from its users who did not like how the feature operated, hence, the migration of Chrome share hub to the native share sheet of Android.
However, there is no timeline announced regarding when will Google introduce the Android OS Sharesheet to Chrome release, since the mentioned change above was only spotted through the Canary App. This is an unstable version of Chrome that gets updated daily.
Android Police reported Chrome's Share Hub became inaccessible when enabling this flag such as generating a QR code for the website you were sharing. Aside from this, other options highlight bigger problems like scrolling screenshots that may be important to some.
While this may be an experimental feature or still be in its development phase, Google may develop this by adding more important features to Android Share Menu before releasing it to the public, in order to become the default behavior for Chrome.
Android's system share menu could get a proper system to incentivize its own applications if Google will move any leftover useful features from Share Hub into Chroem's overflow menu.
Android's Guidelines
While some Android applications have their own share menu, Google does not honor them as it is against Android's guidelines.
"We strongly recommend using the Android Sharesheet to create consistency for users across apps. Apps should not display their own list of share targets or create their own share sheet variations," Google stated.
Android Sharesheet gives users the ability to share information with the right people through relevant app suggestions in just a single tap.
Techdows reported that it also offers suggestion targets unavailable to custom solutions with consistent ranking, since Sharesheet can take into account information regarding the app and user activity.
