After a good ten years, it was urgently necessary to completely revise the app for the Google Play Store. Google reports the successes achieved. The new Google Play Store for Android is said to have 50 percent less source code. Google rewrote the app store in Jetpack Compose.
On the one hand, this results in smaller files, but the performance should also be better. In particular, rendering is now 40 percent faster when you’re looking for new apps, for example. In addition, there should be fewer hangers and image errors.
This is also due to the fact that the basis of the Android app was now a good ten years old. Of course, a lot has happened during this time so that apps run more efficiently, are more efficient and ultimately require less source code. A revision of the Play Store app was therefore necessary.
This update does not happen by chance either, because the Google Play Store is ten years old these days.