{"id":317073,"date":"2019-08-22T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=317073"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T06:33:04","slug":"google-play-store-gets-major-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/317073-google-play-store-gets-major-overhaul.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Store gets major overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has begun <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2019\/08\/the-google-play-stores-visual-refresh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rolling out<\/strong><\/a> a new visual design for the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>The new interface will contain a variety of changes that the company believes will offer a cleaner experience for users.<\/p>\n<p>The new Google Play Store interface will also improve app discovery and will offer accessibility features for users who need them.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the new design is a navigation bar at the bottom of the store for mobile devices, or on the left for tablets and Chrome OS devices.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be two distinct sections for apps and games, as well as cleaner landing pages with larger calls-to-action.<\/p>\n<p>Google has also launched new <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/google-play\/resources\/icon-design-specifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>design specifications<\/strong><\/a> for app icons, which the company encouraged app designers and owners to begin using.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/google-playstore.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-317085\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/google-playstore-640x398.png\" alt=\"google playstore\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/google-playstore-640x398.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/google-playstore-600x373.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/google-playstore-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/google-playstore-1200x746.png 1200w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/google-playstore.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/317061-google-deepmind-co-founder-placed-on-leave.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google DeepMind co-founder placed on leave<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has begun rolling out a new visual design for the Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":163498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[9557,45108],"class_list":["post-317073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google-play-store","tag-play-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317095,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317073\/revisions\/317095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}