Google teases a better Play Store for tablets, foldables, and even Chromebooks - Android Police

Devs told to fto images talk for themselves

Google has had its opportunities to tease the Pixel Tablet this twelvemonth whether it was astatine I/O 2022 successful May oregon the Pixel hardware event earlier this month. That hardware is conscionable a portion of the company's wide committedness to redesigning Android's interfaces for tablets and foldables. One bundle constituent to the strategy has been making the Play Store friendlier to ample screens. Well, we present person immoderate bully penetration into what's changing arsenic Google has elaborate immoderate prime features coming to the app store connected tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks.

The institution shared a azygous (low-res) representation highlighting the changes coming to the Play Store for tablets and foldables successful 2023. This would beryllium a important upgrade implicit the existent Play Store plan for tablets, which inactive seems to beryllium relying connected the blueprint of its smartphone counterpart.

Google calls this a "content-forward approach," offering the description, screenshots, and videos related to the app straight from Apps and Games location screens. The institution clarifies that this is simply a ocular alteration and volition not interaction an app's promotability successful immoderate way. The screenshot shared by Google besides reveals the beingness of a dedicated Kids section, situated astatine the bottommost of the near sidebar with Games, Apps, Books, and Offers.

Android app usage done ChromeOS is besides getting immoderate emotion arsenic portion of the broader changes coming to the Play Store. Google says that starting immediately, app developers tin upload Chromebook screenshots done the Google Play Console. Developers are recommended to usage 16:9 screenshots with dimensions of up to 1080-7690 pixels — possibly adding immoderate indicative headroom to what aboriginal Chromebook displays volition beryllium susceptible of. A full of 8 screenshots tin beryllium uploaded.

Google is besides providing developers with immoderate resources and tips connected making the champion retired of their apps. That means capturing arsenic galore screenshots for antithetic signifier factors arsenic imaginable portion avoiding utilizing instrumentality imagery successful promoting the app oregon game. Promotions should besides thin heavy into imagery alternatively than words. If words are necessary, they should beryllium capable to basal without predominant updates.

It's apt that the Play Store refresh for large-screen devices would beryllium aligned with the merchandise of the Pixel Tablet aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth oregon possibly adjacent with the Pixel Fold which is expected to get by the extremity of Q1 2023. We could perceive much connected this implicit the adjacent fewer months starring up to the accomplishment of Google's flagship tablet (and foldable).

In the meantime, determination are immoderate affordable Android tablets presently disposable successful the marketplace that are decidedly worthy checking out. After all, these Play Store changes are for them arsenic well.