Google Play app icons are getting updated

Written by Lance Nickel

The Google Play Store, and other Google Play products such as Play Music, Games, and Movies. They are really what makes media consumption on Android awesome.

But the icons have fallen behind. When these were designed Google was in the ‘gradient phase’, everything had a shadow, and everything had a gradient.

Google has moved on and they are now using flatter colours. The Play icons have remained in the past, until now.

Google has finally updated their icons. Just for comparison, here are the older icons.

old icons
Icons by Google
Header image icons by Google

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