After pulling out the Android shopping app earlier this month to replace it with the web app, Google is bringing one of the app’s useful features to Chrome. Chrome for Android will soon have a price tracking feature.
Now living in the latest Chrome update for Android Canary, v90, Google has launched its price tracking feature, albeit behind a flag.
If you dive into the flag menu and change the “Tab Grid Layout” option to enable price notifications, the new option appears as people from SmartDroid Highlighted. You can access this option directly using chrome: // flags / # enabled-tab-grid-layout from Chrome Canary. From there, you can switch the setting to “Price notifications enabled”.
The process outlined above should do the trick, but the same Android Police Points you may need to close and reopen Chrome to display the price tracking tool.
How does this new feature work? Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as adding a page or product to a list. Instead, this feature works by monitoring the price of a product that is in the open tabs, as stated directly by Google in a message about functionality. If a price drops, it looks like you’ll receive a notification about it either in the notification tray or when you open Chrome itself. Since this feature works, it seems very unlikely to reach the desktop version of Chrome soon, but it could eventually appear in the iOS app.
If all goes well, this feature could reach the stable version of Chrome sometime in the summer.
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