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Google Play Store testing a redesigned UI for installations [Video]

Google has been relentlessly working to make the Play Store, the place to get an app on Android, better and better. In this pursuit of betterment, Google isn’t afraid to tweak things to the interface here and there, in aims to make it look better. Now, it seems the Mountain View tech giant is trying out a new look for the installation UI.

The new installation UI has been noticed by the folks on Android Authority, and they found the references about this new look with an APK teardown (which means finding work-in-progress code). As usual with such features or design tweaks spotted in the wild, it may or may not make it to a public release, so do keep that in mind.

The UI update is shown in the video below.

Basically, the new user interface places the app being installed at the top of the page with the cancel button positioned off to the right. Underneath the cancel button, …

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