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- An APK teardown has revealed that Cubes is now called Collections.
- Collections will initially only be available in the US.
- A toolbar and shortcut have been added to the feature.
Google started working on a Play Store feature codenamed Cubes back in January 2023. The feature has been in development since then, but we got our first look at it a few months ago when it accidentally went live while it was still in the internal testing phase. Our APK teardown has now revealed a few more details about this experience.
When Cubes was first discovered, there wasn’t a whole lot of information to go on. However, we learned it was a Play Store-powered experience; it has Watch, Listen, Read, Games, Social, and Shop categories; and the user could select a category to be shown relevant content from their apps in one space. The content shown in these sections would come from apps that have partnered with Google.