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Last September, Google launched its own music player app on iOS. The app allows users to store up to 20,000 songs from their personal collection in a cloud-based storage service to access anywhere. A recent discovery by a user show that Google Play Music is already coded with iPad optimization, which likely means that the app will get the official update soon.
Discovered by a reader for 9to5Google, the iPad update is supposedly already in development. A second reader followed up with additional support claiming that changing the iPhone app’s “UIDeviceFamily” key to 2 instead of 1 in its info.plist file results in the iPad layout. The recoding was tested by 9to5Google to be true.
The submitted videos show the app functioning the same basic way that it does on the iPhone, but refitted to fit the larger screen. It doesn’t appear that Google has made any special redesign additions that take advantage of the iPad’s larger landscape.
9to5Google also reported that an unnamed contact at Google thought the iPad optimization had already been released, lending even more support to the idea that the app is in the pipeline.
Not to be a naysayer, but it looks like the iPad version is a bit lackluster. Most music service app developers have spent lots of time and effort to make the iPad experience extra special. Frankly, it is lame sauce for Google to phone it in and not even try to do something special with their music player. When Beats updated their app with iPad support, the developers redesigned the whole service to make better use of the larger screen. Even AOL put out some effort when they updated their AOL Radio app for the iPad.
Maybe this build is just a placeholder for something better that will be more than just Google Play Music extra large. We’ll just have to wait and see what officially launches, if it does at all.
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