TL;DR
- Google’s been working to modernize the Play Store’s interface, recently giving it a new gradient-shaded status bar.
- The app’s also working on a couple more Expressive updates, including a new loading indicator.
- Card UI may also be updated to move text away from graphics.
Material 3 Expressive finally landed in full force last month, and based on your feedback, the changes it implements are well appreciated. But as we’ve seen this past summer, Expressive revamps to existing Android apps haven’t been hitting all at once, and Google continues to whittle away at them. Right now we’ve spotted some new tweaks to one of the company’s apps, and some hints at what could be changing next.
We are looking at the Play Store itself today, and Google’s version 48.4.38-31 release in particular. Most of the stuff we’ve uncovered isn’t yet publicly accessible, and only shows work-in-progress changes that may or may not ever see the light of day. But we will get started with one that you can actually appreciate right now: