Google updates the Play Retailer to make it simpler to seek out non-phone apps • TechCrunch

Google is revamping its Play Retailer in an effort to assist customers higher uncover and set up apps to different units by way of their telephone. The corporate introduced a collection of modifications to the Google Play Retailer that may allow cross-device discovery and new instruments to assist builders higher showcase their non-phone apps, it says.

Among the many new options now coming to the Google Play Retailer telephone app, is the addition of homepages devoted to non-phone units. Google notes that Android customers right now are looking for apps that may run on their watches, tablets, TVs and even of their automobiles, which is why it wished to make these several types of apps extra simply discovered.

One other function permits customers to entry a brand new gadget search filter that helps them discover apps and video games for different units apart from their telephones. The search outcomes that seem when utilizing this filter will solely embrace these apps and video games which might be suitable with the chosen gadget. That manner, you don’t must waste time making an attempt to determine if the Android app you preferred had a watch counterpart, for instance.

And, when customers discover an app or recreation they wish to set up, they’ll be capable of now click on a button to remotely obtain that app to their non-phone gadget by way of the Play Retailer telephone app. This works equally to the performance obtainable right now which permits customers to remotely set up to different telephones beneath their similar Google account.

The modifications comply with the latest launch of a serious Google Play Retailer redesign on the net which now permits customers to entry the web site on their PC or non-Android telephone to remotely set up apps to their numerous Android units, as effectively. This replace additionally included simplified navigation, improved accessibility and different modifications to the best way data is offered to finish customers with the purpose of constructing it less complicated to seek out non-phone apps.

For builders, the mixture of updates ought to enable the flexibility to assist them higher market their non-phone apps to shoppers as they’ll now not be crowded out in search by these which might be phone-only or that don’t assist the given gadget. And if their app is unique to at least one platform, they might even now have a greater likelihood at being found, for this similar cause.

Google formally introduced the updates on Tuesday, however the options had already begun rolling out to world customers within the weeks prior.