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TL;DR
- The Play Retailer exhibits proof of labor in progress on a couple of new visible modifications.
- Wavy progress bars, blue overview stars, font modifications, and new warning messages may very well be on the best way.
- Proper now, none of those tweaks are but seen within the public Play Retailer launch.
We’re only a week and alter away from 2025, and past all of the partying, that spells time for resolutions and reflection. How are you going to reinvent your self within the new yr? Google appears prefer it might already be off to a head begin, as we spot the corporate enjoying round with some nonetheless in-development tweaks to how the Play Retailer appears.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly on work-in-progress code. Nevertheless, it’s doable that such predicted options could not make it to a public launch.
Nothing we’re right now seems to be too impactful, and will simply be builders making an attempt out some new concepts to see what’s doable. And whereas we wouldn’t put any cash on the chances of those displaying up in your cellphone tomorrow, this work no less than affords slightly perception into what nooks and crannies of the Play Retailer’s interface are getting consideration proper now.
We’re testing Google’s new model 44.1.17-31 construct of the Play Retailer. You gained’t see any of those modifications utilizing the app by yourself cellphone simply but, however we have been in a position to get a couple of of them to indicate up for us slightly bit early. Simply essentially the most seen one right here is all of the progress indicators choosing up a brand new, wavy design:
It’s principally the identical type of look we’re accustomed to from Android’s media participant UI — although admittedly, the wavy look makes a bit extra sense over there, no less than invoking comparisons to an audio waveform. It’s undoubtedly visually hanging, and the movement would possibly make it really feel like app installs are shifting alongside only a bit quicker.
Did you see another modifications in that video in comparison with the Play Retailer you’ve got now? This one is tremendous refined, however when you take a look at an app’s overview you possibly can see that Google’s making an attempt out the thought of constructing the star blue, as a substitute of the black we have now now. We are able to additionally see the Play Retailer making an attempt out a special font for the textual content on this row, recognized in app code as Google Materials typography.
Lastly, Google could also be fascinated by calling slightly bit extra consideration to warning notices within the Play Retailer. Fairly than coloured textual content on a white background, builders are attempting out an alternate presentation with darkish textual content in a coloured field. You possibly can take a look at before-and-after views of each this and the blue star change above.
Like we mentioned, none of that is actually going to alter the best way we use the Play Retailer, and at greatest it quantities to making an attempt on some contemporary duds. Love ’em? Hate ’em? Come down and complain concerning the bizarre wavy progress bar within the feedback beneath.
