With the latest Android 10 comes several changes, including the fact that it has a system-wide dark theme that not only darkens the user interface of system apps but also flips the switch on any third-party apps that opt-in. Google is updating all their major apps with dark themes by the time Android 10 releases.
This week the Gmail app for Android started showing a different theme toggle for some users, and we’ve also spotted a fully functional dark mode in the Google Play Store as well.
As you might be able to tell from the screenshots, the Play Store dark theme theme was first spotted by XDA. Although XDA often messes with APKs to get them to show unique or unreleased features, it appears that this one was simply the result of one of Google’s famous server-side tests.
The above screenshots show off the new Google Play Store dark theme theme. The following 3 screenshots show off the home page, the Settings page, and the search page.
The subject in question was a Pixel 2 XL running Android 10 and version 16.6.25 of the Play Store. The system-wide dark theme toggle was enabled in settings, but there was no third-party theme installed, and the force dark mode developer option wasn’t checked. This seems to be a limited roll-out thus far, but hopefully we see it sooner than later.
Once the Google Play Store widely rolls out the long waited theme, we’ll let you all know. Google recently rolled out a Material Theme redesign for the Play Store in preparation for this dark mode, but the company pulled back and rolled out that redesign so many times that there’s no telling when they’ll make the dark theme available for all.
