There’s no doubt that Google Maps is the most popular mapping and navigation app on Android. The change in Google Maps chronology is therefore significant and soon we will lose all our trips. Despite these, the Mountain View giant does not stop updating with improvements and has recently been focusing on reporting events such as public transportation delays or traffic accidents.

That’s not the only change. Google Maps is not without problems; One of them is related to understanding which version of the application we have installed and which functions are yet to come. This will end: Google has updated it with a change that will be unnoticeable but useful for users. identify installed version. And by the way, the new features coming are a bit of a complicated task due to the number of versions and, above all, the difference between what comes through updates and what comes from the server side.

Which version of Google Maps are you using?

Knowing Google Maps version number is easy on Android: When you press and hold the icon and tap the “Information” button, it will take us to the tab of the application (in the phone settings). At the bottom you’ll see the unmistakable number… or maybe it is, because this numbering has been a bit odd so far.

Unlike other ‘Google Apps’, Google Maps followed its own new version numbering. Comparing one with the previous is a simple task but when we lose track a little, things become quite complicated with the dance of numbers.

So for the public version numbers don’t reflect anything. Moreover, a significant jump in numbering, for example from version 4 to version 5, does not mean that it will bring major changes. Many applications and other types of software use this jump in version number to reflect the arrival of new features.

However, until recently, the Google Maps for Android version was displayed as 11.155.0101, which is one of the latest updates. The first digit is “11”, which in this case will be the major version number, Last modified in 2021. Since then we have remained on the “same” version, and on the contrary, Google decided to give it another numbering in the iPhone application: there is a different system, now we are up to date with 6.142.0.

But as we read on 9to5Google, Google Maps’ version numbers will change for the better, or rather, to make more sense. Moreover, there are comments in the media that they will do this in the future, and we have already been able to confirm this: Android app already shows new numbering.

How is this? We have already installed version 24.47.04.699095382, here The first digit is the number of the year, the second is the number of the week.. If this style looks familiar, it’s because it comes from other ‘Google Apps’, such as Google Play services.

This way it is easier to determine whether we have it or not. old version or, on the contrary, we carry the latest: it is also very useful in terms of adding new features to these versions. This is very important in these times as not all functions are enabled in the new version of the app and sometimes it comes from the server side.

via | 9to5Google

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