Google System’s Latest Update Brings New Changes to Android WebView, Play Store, and Wallet

Google has recently released the latest Android OS 14, which has brought several new features for the devices that are eligible to get access. With the latest OS upgrade, you will get more new features and improvements, which will improve the user experience of your device. While bringing some new functionality and changes for a better stock experience on the Android smartphone, the company is constantly rolling out new updates for its original applications.

Google introduces some new changes to its original applications

On every Android device, there are several applications that are designed by Google to make devices more usable, such as the Play Store, Gmail, Google Play Services, and many more. The company has rolled out some new features for the Android View, Play Store, and wallet. Let’s see what we will get.

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To better access web content, Google has introduced some new improvements to security and privacy by resolving some bugs, along with new developer features for Google and third-party app developers to support functionality related to displaying web content in their apps.

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For battery compatibility for wallet services with WearOS devices, it has brought push provisioning for wearables, and to provide more ease to users, it has added wallet passes from images containing barcodes or QR codes. To bring more improvement to system management, it has to update the codes to provide more strength to security. You can check the official changelog below.

Google Play system update changelog [latest additions]

Android Web view

• Improvements to security and privacy and updates for bug fixes [10]
• New developer features for Google and third-party app developers to support functionality related to displaying web content in their apps

Google Play Store

• [Phone] When tapping on an ad, the image used on the card will be viewable as a screenshot on the Details Page.

Wallet

• [Wear] Enabling push provisioning for wearables
• [Phone] Support adding wallet passes from images containing barcodes or QR codes.

System management

• [Auto, PC, Phone, TV, Wear] Updates to system management services that improve privacy

How can you get all the new features?

To get all the new features and improvements, you have to update three applications, including the Google Play Store (v38.1), Google Play Services (23.42), and Android WebView (v119). To update the Google Play service, tap here. Users can easily update the Android web view by tapping on this link. However, if you want to update the Google Play Store, you have to go to these settings and tap on the about section, then tap on the update Play Store button.