It prohibits transparent backgrounds, with Google dynamically adding rounded corners and drop shadows to icons. This applies to the Play Store on Android phones and tablets, as well as Chromebooks.

Google Play on Android and Chrome OS will dynamically apply rounded corners and drop shadows to icons. The corner radius will be 20% of the icon size, to ensure consistency at different sizes.

Google introduced the requirement to “bring consistency and a cleaner look to Google Play” by making all icons rounded squares. The change will affect the store on both Android and Chrome OS. Further, ...

A 'blandroid' if you will; Google has just switched on the mandatory addition of rounded square icon options to its app marketplace in preparation for a full switch in June.

Back to rounded edges with the new universal search, which is also now live. Android Police. ... not just appearing as a hard-edged square but with an off-center Google logo, to boot.

ChromeOS is testing an option to change square corners to rounded corners. ... Both Windows and Android feature rounded window corners, so Google is following a well-received trend in ChromeOS Canary.

For the past couple years Google has been testing different user interfaces around rounded corners and edges for the mobile search results.. Well, Google has kept up on testing them. I often see ...