After Google pulled the plug from the Shopping app on Android 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 have a price tracking feature coming soon.
Live now in the latest Chrome for Android Canary update, v90, Google has introduced its price tracking feature, albeit behind a flag.
If you dive into the flags menu and swap the ‘Tab grid layout’ option to enable price alerts, the new option will appear like the people on SmartDroid marked. You can access this option directly with chrome: // flags / # enabled-tab-grid-layout from Chrome Canary. From there, you can change the setting to ‘Enabled Price Alerts’.
The process outlined above should do the trick, but like this Android Police Points out, you may need to close and reopen Chrome to view the price tracker.
How does this new feature work? Unfortunately, it is not as easy as adding a page or product to a list. Instead, this feature works by checking the price of a product that’s on your open tabs, as Google directly states in a post about its functionality. When a price goes down, it looks like you get a notification about it in the notification tray or when you open Chrome itself. Since this functionality works like this, it seems highly unlikely that it will be coming to the desktop version of Chrome anytime soon, but it could eventually show up in the iOS app.
If all goes well, this functionality could appear in Chrome’s stable release sometime in the summer.
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