Prepare for Google Play to get a new look

On Google+ today, Kirill Grouchnikov shared images of what will become of Google Play in a soon-to-be-released update. The upcoming facelift for the Play Store seems to focus more on graphics and less on text. Navigation will be done through more noticeable tabs with animations following the company’s own Material Design guidelines. And, as you can see above, division will occur between the content found in the Play Store. Apps and games will have their own place away while everything else offered — movies, television shows, music, books, news — is pushed into an Entertainment section.

Look! A new animation!

Google Play will also be getting its own introduction like almost every other major app from Google. It informs users that this is the place for apps, games, movies, television shows, music, books, and news.

Grouchnikov has been working on the Play Store for almost six years, a time when it was still known as the Android Market; however, his time there is over with a transition in place to go to the Android frameworks team:

“Android Market / Play Store has been my work home for the last (almost) six years. Now that I’m moving to the frameworks team, the story of Play Store will not be mine to tell – if I could even ever lay such a claim to begin with, since it’s always been a team effort, and I was the self-selected messenger of all things pixels.

In fact, the vast majority of pretty pixels I’ve posted today are not mine. I did a few minor things here and there, mostly documenting all the terrible hacks and all the awkward decisions that were made over these years.

I’m sad to leave the team after being on it for so long and seeing the product evolving along the way. I’m also very excited to have watched the evolution of the new design from the sidelines over the last [REDACTED PERIOD OF TIME WHERE NOBODY NOTICED THE NEW BITS AND PIECES IN ALL THE TEARDOWNS SERIOUSLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE CAN YOU NOT READ BETWEEN THE LINES ANYMORE].”

In honor of his work, let’s admire how far the Play Store has come:

We’d like to thank Kirill for all of his work on the Play Store and wish him the best in what’s next to come.

Source: Kirill Grouchnikov (Google+)

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