One of the most important pieces in the Android ecosystem is Android Market — Google’s application storefront that comes pre-installed on the vast majority of Android devices with over 4.5 billion installs so far.
Today at a breakaway session at Google I/O, Eric Chu took the stage to walk developers through some of the key trends on Android Market, and to announce some new features that will be coming soon.
The biggest user-facing changes involve both the web and client versions of Android Market. The web version now features a dozen new lists that showcase various applications, including, ‘Trending’ and ‘Top Grossing’ lists. Market will start suggesting apps based on your previous downloads. And the Android team is taking a more active role in flagging the best apps — there are new badges that top developers can earn for producing consistently good applications, and an ‘editor’s choice’ badge that can be placed on individual great apps. All of this is designed to help both users and developers weed through the noise.
The client version of Market on Android devices is also getting an update that will include many of these new discovery features. The visual design looks significantly better than the current app, though I haven’t gotten to try it out yet. You can see a screenshot above. It wasn’t clear when this new client will roll out
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