The final piece of the Play Store 4.0 puzzle was posted on Google+ today. A YouTube employee by the name of Eileen Rivera posted a screen shot of previously-unseen Play Store front page:
The design is a perfect match for the leaked build we got to play with a few weeks ago, and, if you ignore the action bar, a big improvement.
Of particular interest is the new Up button, which features the Play
Store logo and a bone in a dog bowl. This is a reference to "Dogfooding"
- a term Google uses to denote internal beta testing. Eileen probably
shouldn't have posted this. We saved a copy when it went up, and, sure
enough, it was deleted a few hours later.
Each content section has gotten a new icon. They're now flat, 1 color
designs, which we've never seen before. This is definitely further
along than our leaked build.
The ugly pixel "design" on the action bar is still present, but I think
it's just a marking denoting that this is an unfinished build. I did a
teardown of our leaked version and found the pixels were a separate
element on top of the action bar, and could easily be removed. Extra
layers slows things down, if this was a permanent design, they would
integrate it with the color layer.
That's it for now. We'll let you if anything else interesting comes across our virtual desks.
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