Remember that hefty
leak from a few weeks back that pointed to a dramatic redesign for Google’s
Play Store Android app? Well, in case you were still unconvinced, Google has
confirmed that just such a facelift has been in the works, and that the new 4.0
version of the Play Store app will start rolling out to devices running Android
2.2 and newer some time today.
It would seem that
Google’s big goal with this new redesign was to bring the Play Store in line
with other prominent Android features — ever since its last major facelift, the
Google Play Android app has been swathed in blacks and greys, with color
highlights corresponding to different content types breaking up the visual
monotony. At the time the shift in design made sense — Honeycomb and Ice Cream
Sandwich featured a colder, darker aesthetic than previous versions of Android
and also relied on light blue UI flourishes. Services like Google Now and apps
like Google Search have gone in a drastically divergent direction these past
few months though, and the now the Play Store doesn’t look like the odd one
out.
Much like what you’d
see in Google Now, individual apps, songs, and books now live in discrete
cards, and there’s a much greater focus on big, eye-catching images. Those
dreary colors have been given the axe too in favor of a much lighter design
that helps make that entire content stand out even more....Read
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