This means, despite not accommodating the famed Google Play Store, out of the box, Fire Tablets allow you to play around with the platform and install the same in due course.Įssentially a 10-minute long process, regardless of the method you choose, installing the Google Play store on the Fire Tablet opens a whole new world of possibilities for you. The Fire OS, or as we call it, is still essentially Android. It’s unclear when Google plans to roll out this new design more widely, but we’ll certainly be keeping a close eye on it.Let’s not belittle the Amazon ecosystem citing the lack of the Google Play Store as a pretext. Functionally, it seems the new Play Store design on the web is on par with its past iteration. There, we can see some of the account management settings. Our Damien Wilde was able to get the design running on his browser using a VPN. Our tiper was also gracious enough to provide several more screenshots showing the search interface, movie listings, and more. Our tipster seems to have been able to get the client using the Korean Play Store, which can be accessed at /store/apps?gl=kr.
It seems that some regional variations of the Play Store web client have success in enabling the new design, but it’s a lottery. Unfortunately, we don’t yet have easy access to this new redesign, as it seems to be rolling out on a server-side switch. Users can filter the apps shown by device type including phone, tablet, TV, Chromebook, watch, and car. There’s also a new “Apps” tab that shows top charts, popular apps, and app filters. Large headers and video previews for games are also clearly apparent, with the example listing of Minecraft switching to a darker page that has an auto-play trailer for the game.
The updated design retains app previews, the ability to remotely install apps, and support for movies and books alongside apps and games.
At first glance, it looks just like the Play Store app on Chromebooks, but if anything that’s a good call by Google, as it leads to coherency across clients. Seemingly rolling out now in a very limited capacity, this new Google Play Store design for the web pulls heavily from the design of the mobile app. Finally, though, Google is giving the Play Store a design overhaul on the web. The functional website offers up the ability to remotely install apps, manage payment methods, and more. It’s always been nice that the Play Store has been accessible not just from smartphones and tablets, but also the web.
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