Exciting Widget inbound for Apple Music Android

The latest build of the Apple Music Android beta rolled out recently with a considerable upgrade to how widgets look and function on the Android home screen. Decompiling this latest build may also reveal the name for Apple’s proposed standalone music app for the classical genre. 

Apple Music users on Android devices will be familiar with the two widgets shipped with one of the first alpha builds of the app. These have started feeling a little stale as other music apps up their widget game. Happily, version 3.9 furnishes these staple widgets with much-needed cosmetic and functional updates. 

 The first update is that both widgets have lost their thick border padding. This means that they can now comfortably take up more space on the screen without looking out of place. The Apple Music Player widget has become wider and taller, and the Apple Music recently Played widget has more configuration options when you resize it.

Users now, therefore, have better control over the overall aesthetic of their home screens. The grid showing past tracks has had an update too and is now available in 3×2 and 3×1 configurations that seamlessly increase the size of the top half of the widgets. 

Apple acquired Primephonic last year in August in an attempt to bolster its streaming utility’s prowess when it comes to classical music, an ever-popular music genre. They subsequently shut the app down and informed users that a replacement may launch early into 2022. The lines of code you find while decompiling the Apple Music Android beta reveal that Apple Classical may be the name for this new dedicated app.

This data string supports that notion: ‘<string name=” open_in_apple_classical”>Open in Apple Classical</string>.‘ 

While only time can definitively tell what the new app’s name will be, this instance reminds us of the Apple One name revealed in 2020. Details are always subject to change, especially closer to the launch. But hopefully, we’ll have new details about the dedicated app soon.