{"id":157979,"date":"2019-08-22T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=253289"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:13:06","slug":"google-play-store-gets-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/22\/google-play-store-gets-a-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Store gets a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tGoogle rolled out a revamped version of its Play Store, introducing updates meant to make it easier for users to find the apps they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>A new navigation bar includes separate tabs for games, apps, books, and movies and TV, but scraps a legacy tab for music, which has been relegated to a secondary menu.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, listing pages have been reconfigured to display key app information, including download totals, reviews and age rating, at the top of the page alongside an enlarged install button.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Google said the changes are meant to \u201cdeliver a cleaner, more premium store that improves app discovery and accessibility&#8221; for its more than two billion monthly active users.<\/p>\n<p>However, TechCrunch noted the redesign, which also standardises the shape of app icons for a uniform appearance, heavily favours an Apple-like aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s decision to put games front and centre on its new menu, at least, likely has little to do with Apple. App Annie data showed [1] the genre accounted for more than a third of all downloads and nearly 75 per cent of spending across Apple\u2019s App Store and Google Play in Q2.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/app-records-shattered-in-bumper-q2\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google rolled out a revamped version of its Play Store, introducing updates meant to make &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/google-play-store-gets-a-makeover\/\">Google Play Store gets a makeover<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/22\/google-play-store-gets-a-makeover\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2069,2086,5222,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-F63","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157989,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157979\/revisions\/157989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}