Following yesterday's unveiling of Android 4.4 and the Nexus 5, we've been enjoying a nonstop barrage of APKs which got here before any of us even got a chance to receive our own Nexus 5s in the mail thanks to the Nexus 5 factory image.

One of the updated APKs inside the image, as it turns out, is a slightly updated Play Store with version 4.4.22. The latest Play Store before that - the one that brought us the slide-out navigation panel - was 4.4.21. This one must be at least one better, right?

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What's New?

As you can imagine, a 0.0.1 bump indicates that not much at all has changed. There are definitely updated translations inside. I've also found some code changes related to deferring auto-updating of apps, which I think may be used to make auto-updating less taxing on a device that could be already doing a bunch of things. The delay seems to be set at 300,000 milliseconds, which equals 5 minutes. That's about it - everything else looks minor.

Here's some relevant code for those interested:

FinskyLog.d("Auto-update of %d packages will defer for %d ms", new Object[]{Integer.valueOf(v1.size()),

G.autoUpdateDeliveryHoldoffMs.get()});

UpdateChecker.this.mInstaller.startDeferredInstalls();

G.autoUpdateDeliveryHoldoffMs = GservicesValue.value("finsky.auto_update_delivery_holdoff_ms", Long.valueOf(300000));

File Size History

  • com.android.vending-3.10.14.apk 5.88 MB (6,174,123 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.0.25.apk 5.89 MB (6,183,354 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.0.26.apk 5.89 MB (6,181,405 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.0.27.apk 5.89 MB (6,181,458 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.1.6.apk 5.75 MB (6,036,474 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.1.10.apk 5.76 MB (6,040,792 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.2.3.apk 5.76 MB (6,046,580 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.2.9.apk 5.84 MB (6,129,144 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.3.10.apk 5.75 MB (6,036,657 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.3.11.apk 5.75 MB (6,038,575 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.4.21.apk 5.84 MB (6,126,172 bytes)
  • com.android.vending-4.4.22.apk 5.84 MB (6,126,834 bytes)

Download

The APK is signed by Google and upgrades your existing Play Store. The cryptographic signature guarantees that the file is safe to install and was not tampered with in any way. Rather than wait for Google to push this download to your devices, which can take weeks, download and install it just like any other APK and enjoy the new Play Store experience.