Chrome’s custom tabs are widely adopted – with one notable exception – on Android that allows third-party apps to use Google’s default browser when opening links. With Chrome 88 released earlier this week, Custom Guides are getting an experimental share button.
Third-party developers can customize customized tabs to match the style of your applications. An adjustment allows them to add a button to the application bar, to the left of the floating menu. For example, Twitter has a “TWEET” button to quickly open the compose window and enter that URL.
However, the social media application is the rare exception, with Google noting that “Customized guides do not provide a standard sharing experience and many applications do not provide a way for users to share content”.
This results in an unsatisfactory user experience, in which users must find the share action in the browser’s floating menu. This action takes the user out of the application and opens the link in the browser, resulting in decreased application engagement.
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Google is correcting this by “running an experiment” with Custom Guides on Chrome 88, which adds a simple share button to open the system spreadsheet. It appears when an application has not specified its own action button and remains in the overflow as “Share via”. This is because “users often want to share the content that is rendered on custom tabs”.
The default action button will be added automatically to the application, as long as the application does not define its own. Since this change will happen in the browser, it will be applied automatically to all applications that use custom tabs.
The experiment was widely implemented after the launch of Chrome 88 for Android on Tuesday. Google provides application developers with instructions on how to cancel.
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