A new update to the Google Play Store is out, and 9to5Google’s APK teardown of the new update throws light on some of the changes that Google is working on for the Play Store. Here’s everything new that was spotted in the APK teardown:
Google has been working on a new Material Design for all of its apps, and while some of them have already started receiving it, the APK teardown for the Play Store update 16.0.15 shows that the Play Store is also playing around with the new design.
Apart from that, Google has also redesigned the developer-page inside the Play Store, which now looks like this: Image courtesy: 9to5Google
The teardown also reveals that the videos shown in the Play Store’s homepage might auto-play in the future. However, there might be an option to disable that setting for people who don’t want autoplaying videos in the app. Image courtesy: 9to5Google
According to strings spotted by 9to5Google inside the decompiled APK, the Play Protect feature might soon enable more descriptive descriptions. Here are the strings spotted in the teardown:
