With Racer, you can build slot-car-style race tracks which align across up to five mobile screens. Touch your screen, and your car speeds across all the phones and tablets, not just your own. This shows a hint of what’s possible when web experiences are designed for a multi-player (and multi-device) world.
Both experiments use the latest in web technologies and keep themselves synchronized using WebSockets, which allows data to be sent between multiple devices and servers at any time. Developers interested in learning more should stay tuned to the Chromium blog for documentation on how we made both games.
Have fun, and experiment on!
Posted by Iain Tait, Creative Director and Speed Demon
Following fullscreen support on phones, we are now adding fullscreen on tablets as well. As you scroll, the top toolbar disappears so you can immerse yourself in the web page content. Finally, on phones, a “+” in the toolbar now makes creating tabs even easier.
For those of you trying out our experimental data compression feature, you can see a graph (under “Settings > Bandwidth Management”) that shows your estimated bandwidth savings.
The latest version of Chrome Beta for Android is available on Google Play. We look forward to your early feedback.
Posted by Miguel Garcia, Software Engineer & Multilingual Maestro
Missed a bunch of notifications while you were taking a coffee break? No problem -- you can open up the notification center to see them all in one place.
Notification Center on Windows
Notification Center on ChromeOS
You can also disable notifications from any source whenever you wish, for those times when you want some peace and quiet.
Download Chrome Beta today to get a preview of these features on Windows (Mac support coming soon!).
Posted by Somas Thyagaraja, Product Manager and Nifty Notifier
To make browsing the mobile web even easier, web pages also display in fullscreen on phones. As you scroll, the top toolbar disappears so you can immerse yourself in the web page content. When you scroll up, the toolbar returns so you can get on to the next thing.
Chrome for iPhone and iPad, with voice search (coming soon)
Over the coming days, we’re rolling out an update for iPhone and iPad as well. You can now speak your searches into the omnibox. Touch the microphone, say your search query aloud and see your results (in some cases spoken back to you), all without typing a single letter. Try these queries with the update (coming soon to the App Store):
“How many miles from San Antonio to Dallas?”
“What’s the weather in Rome?”
“Who stars in The Internship?”
This update also enables faster reloading of web pages by using the cache more efficiently when the network is slow, which is especially useful when you’re on the go. Finally, other iOS apps can now give you the option to open links in Chrome and then return to the app with just one tap.
We look forward to your feedback on the latest versions of Chrome for Android and iOS.
Posted by Yusuf Ozuysal and Milan Broum, Minimalist & Vocal Software Engineers
