The phone app matches the overall color scheme of your wallpaper, while the website is still a stark white. The other touch missing is any kind of 'Material You' color scheme, which is Android 12's new color-matching UI. There is no sign of dark-mode support yet, but I would be shocked if that wasn't one of the early updates when this becomes official. Letting users sift through everything from the comfort of their web browsers sounds like a great idea. Google revamped Wear OS with the help of Samsung, and it announced a tablet-and-foldable-focused release of Android, called ' Android 12L.' The Play Store is even offering discounted fees to developers who support more form factors, hopefully pushing developers to support more of these products. Just in the past year, Google relaunched its TV platform as ' Google TV,' and the first Android Automotive car, the Polestar 2, started shipping. These new filters are yet another sign Google is showing a renewed interest in pushing Android beyond phones, Android's most successful form factor. Devices are now sold at the standalone Google Store website.

On some platforms, like Smart TVs, Google is shutting down the Play section in favor of YouTube. YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV currently overlap, since they both sell premium Hollywood video content. Music has been taken from Google Play Music and is now a YouTube product. Podcasts now live at Google Podcasts and will probably also be taken over by YouTube in the future. Today, Google Play is a lot less powerful. At the peak of its powers, the Play Store sidebar had six sections: Apps (and Games), Movies & TV, Music (and podcasts), Books, Magazines (and News subscriptions), and even a physical 'Devices' section for Nexus phones. That means lots of whitespace and a layout focused on app icons and video thumbnails.īack in 2013, Google envisioned the Play Store as a one-stop shop for all content from Google. The new website looks just like the Android app. The site has had some small tweaks since then, but the bones of the site are still eight years old, and it presents content in a card motif that Google has moved on from.

The current Google Play website design dates back to 2013. While the Play Store app on Android devices is continually updated, the website has mostly been forgotten. It's not exactly official yet but is rolling out to several people. Android Police was the first to spot the dramatic new look.

The Google Play website is getting a long-overdue redesign.

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