Check out Google’s latest WIP Play Store UI tweaks
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long story short
- The Play Store shows evidence that some new visual changes are in the works.
- Wavy progress bars, blue review stars, font changes, and new warning messages may be coming soon.
- Currently, these adjustments are not yet visible in the public Play Store version.
We’re only a week away from 2025, and besides all the partying, that also means there’s time to make decisions and reflection. How are you going to reinvent yourself in the new year? It looks like Google may already be ahead of the game, as we spotted the company making some still-in-development tweaks to how Play store It seems.
one APK teardown Helps predict future features that may appear on the service based on ongoing coding. However, such predicted functionality may not be publicly released.
Nothing we saw today seemed too impactful and could just be developers trying out some new ideas to see what’s possible. While we wouldn’t bet on the likelihood of this content showing up on your phone tomorrow, this work at least gives us some insight into which nooks and crannies of the Play Store interface are getting attention right now.
We are looking at the new version 44.1.17-31 of the Google Play Store. You won’t be able to see any of these changes using the app on your phone just yet, but we were able to get some of them ahead of us. The most obvious thing here is the new wavy design for all progress indicators:
It’s basically the same look as the familiar Android media player UI – although admittedly the wavy look makes more sense there, at least compared to the audio waveform. It’s definitely visually striking, and the action may make you feel like app installation speeds up a bit.
Did you notice any other changes to the film compared to where it is now on your Play Store? This one is very subtle, but if you look at the app’s reviews, you’ll see that Google is trying to make the stars blue instead of the black we have now. We can also see that the Play Store is trying to use a different font for the text in this line, identified in the app code as Google Material typography.
Finally, Google may be considering calling people to pay more attention to warning notifications in the Play Store. The developers are trying out an alternative demo that uses dark text in a colored box instead of colored text on a white background. You can see a before and after view of this variation and the blue star variation above.
As we said, none of this will really change the way we use the Play Store, at best it will just try something new. Love them? Hate them? Come down and complain about the weird wavy progress bar in the comments below.
2024-12-20 18:07:53