Finally Whatsapp received a Material Design overhaul.

At long last, WhatsApp has received a Material Design overhaul on Android, and it now looks a whole lot better than the last version.

The update isn’t yet available on Google Play, so you’ll need to install the latest version off WhatsApp’s site to see the changes.

Home WhatsApp for Android gets a much needed Material Design makeover, bringing cleaner layouts and new icons

WhatsApp version 2.12.41 now features a deep green title bar that blends into the three tabs for calls, chats and contacts. You’ll notice new buttons in the chat window to record voice messages, as well as in the attachment option pop-up.

Chat and share location WhatsApp for Android gets a much needed Material Design makeover, bringing cleaner layouts and new icons

Group chat info and profiles now look a lot nicer, with a clean layout and a large cover image that shrinks to a titlebar with the dominant color from said image.

Profile and image sharing WhatsApp for Android gets a much needed Material Design makeover, bringing cleaner layouts and new icons

The media selection screen for sharing photos and video, as well as the Settings menu now look clean and bright.

I noticed that a few design changes and animations aren’t the same on my device as in this AndroidPolice post — so it’s likely that WhatsApp is still working on rolling out all of its visual updates.

Still, the improved layouts and neater iconography are a breath of fresh air. If you want to see what the Material Design update looks like right now, grab the latest version from WhatsApp’s site.

download : Whatsapp 2.12.41

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Google Drive offline Installer (official)

          Much like Chrome, Google offers the online installer for Google Drive too, which may be not the most convenient install method for systems with low bandwidth and slow internet connection.

Google Drive online installer

       Usually, like all, you can download Google Drive from here (you need to sign into your Google account for this) which is of size 700+ KB. If you run Googledrive sync.exe, then Google Drive installer downloads required files and installs drive on your Computer.

Google drive offline installer

Finding official offline installer link for Google Drive isn't that difficult.

It’s true that Google does offer offline installer for their cloud storage service, but keeps it hidden, though you can find it easily. Since Google Drive version number changes with the updates, it’s difficult to provide a permanent URL here on blog for Google Drive.

Official Google drive offline installer to say for e.g. for version number x is
http://dl.google.com/drive/x/gsync.msi 
where you need to replace x with the current version number which is 1.20.8672.3137.

Then Google Drive standalone installer link becomes http://dl.google.com/drive/1.20.8672.3137/gsync.msi, but this link will change once Google drive program updates, then you need to replace above version number with the new one. This might be a bit tedious.

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