Google Play Store to add single-Collection home screen widgets

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Google brought Collections to the Play Store a couple years back.

So far, the Play Store widgets all feature multiple Collections that are shown at once.

Google is now working on single-Collection widgets, to highlight just your favorites.

Two years ago, the Google Play Store introduced Collections , a method for making it easier to access thematically similar apps by grouping them according to topics like Shop, Listen, Food, and more. It didn’t take long after that for Google to introduce some new Collections widgets , giving us quick access to these categories straight from the home screen. Now we’ve spotted Google working on the next evolution of the Play Store’s widgets, splitting Collections out into multiple, separate widgets.

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