Another entirely new redesign of the mobile Android Market interface is about to launch, with Google promising the new phone layout will start to hit Android 2.2 devices and higher “in the coming weeks”.
The new design features a few design references we’ve already seen in the excellent Google+ Android app, with coloured tabs letting you know where you are – plus similar sections to those found on the Android Market’s desktop web site.
It’s one heck of a radical redesign. Sadly, the US version of the Market app will come with more exciting things we won’t see, incorporating support for Books and Videos – two features yet to make it out of the US.
Read some of the thinking behind the decisions over on the Google Mobile Blog, or get the developer perspective at the Android Developers site. And there’s a video of it in action below…
Doesn’t that look nice? A proper refresh.
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k0zmic
/ July 12, 2011I quite like it, looks very polished. It does remind me of Metro UI from WP7 a tad.
John Drinkwater
/ July 12, 2011Seen a few replies like this on articles for the new Market, it honestly looks like trolling…
It doesn’t contain stark colours.
It doesn’t contain words that wrap off the screen.
It has a search button on screen too!
Soo not like WP7
k0zmic
/ July 13, 2011It’s mainly just the big squares that remind of tiles from WP7 and perhaps how it now combines Books & Movies a bit like how the WP7 Marketplace shows Music as well. And as you pointed out it has a search button as well!
I agree with your other points regarding the words and colours though.
I still think it looks great and I’ll be installing it right away regardless of what it resembles, there’s an APK of here: http://www.multiupload.com/QJ2DVLJJ5X
ChrisMav
/ July 13, 2011Looks and feels slick! I love it!
imperticus
/ July 13, 2011too much grey i think, but otherwise looks good
h0ruza
/ July 13, 2011Grey seems to at the heart of the Google UI (Bar Honeycomb) rethink but I think it needs to be softened just a tad.
I thought this dude from palm would have a more visible effect on Google by now. UI is so important and IOS proved it. Microsoft took a while to come around to the idea and now look at them. Windows 8 is a bold blend of metro and the aged windows UI and i can see it replacing or at least evolving windows into a much better UI for the future.
Come on Google break the mould a little.
Dime
/ July 14, 2011I see that the design is too Windows7-like….