At I/O today, engineering director Yerga took the stage to briefly speak about the ay update that debuted early this morning.

The new ay Store home screen will soon become a treasure trove of personalized recommendations. plans start populating your ay Store’s splash screen with h-picked (or at least algorithm-picked) book, app, movie suggestions.

rhaps more importantly, a new section in the ay Store’s Top Charts will highlight apps built specifically for Android tablets. That’s a key addition for the ecosystem; the lack of solid tablet app discovery is a frequent complaint about the ay Store, as many Android apps are built for phone interfaces don’t scale well to larger screens.

Expect to see the new mobile ay interface revealed in April to exp to the b soon, as well. Yay color uniformity!

ay for ucation

Sundar nchai, the head of both Chrome Android, took the stage a bit later to introduce ay for ucation, a curated version of the ay Store designed for use in schools that have adopted Apps. Expect to see it this fall.

The apps in the ay Store for ucation are all cherry-picked by a team of educators, are filterable by subject matter grade level. Each student who has been issued an Chromebook by their school receives their own account login. ucators can push out apps to several students at once using G’s group functionality, new apps can be purchased in bulk using purchase orders set up by the school district.

nchai says a hful of schools are already using ay for ucation, more than 1,000 schools are already using Chromebooks. , he said, has provided the backbone; now, it’s up to developers to carry the torch forward. (You know, for the children.) ll they heed the call? Maybe, but this particular child feels like one that could very easily be left behind if nchai co. fail to take it under their wing.