Google is continually working on its advanced commercial center, that is Google Play Store, to assist developers with circulating applications in a superior manner. Presently, the organization has declared its arrangement to switch away from APKs to its current substitute application bundling design called Android App Bundles. It expects to settle significant issues with the current APK application bundling arrange and decrease the size of Android applications by 15%.
Presently, for the uninformed, developers have been utilizing the APK (short for Android Packages) organization to bundle codes, resources, and different components of applications for quite a while. Notwithstanding, according to a new declaration, Android application engineers will need to utilize Google’s Android App Bundles (AAB) bundling design for new applications, beginning from August 2021.
Why Switch to AAB From APK?
The new application packaging design expects to decrease the size of Android applications, which will, thusly, empower quicker downloads and lesser stockpiling necessities for end-users. It was presented by the organization back in 2018, and Google says that in excess of 1,000,000 applications on the Play Store, including Adobe, Netflix, Twitter, and Duolingo use application bundles rather than APKs.
The new configuration requires applications to be under 150MB in size for further developed conveyance. For applications and games that are more than 150MB in size, engineers should utilize the new Play Asset Delivery (PAD) framework to convey outer assets to clients. Presently, applications and games use OBBs to convey extra resources for clients. Be that as it may, the PAD framework utilizes quicker information pressure and dynamic conveyance techniques to empower quicker downloads, even while previously playing a game or running an application.
What’s the Catch
Presently, despite the fact that application bundles settle the issues with APK packaging design, there is a significant catch for the developers. The Android App Bundles design is just accessible for applications on the Google Play Store, dissimilar to APKs that engineers can transfer to outsider commercial centers like Amazon App Store (likewise coming to Windows 11), Xiaomi’s Get Apps, and others.
Accordingly, developers who change to AAB won’t convey precisely the same bundle to other application stores and sources. This kills the chance of sideloading applications except if the engineers keep a different APK form of their applications.
The new application bundling organization will turn into a norm for Play Store applications from August 2021. Along these lines, engineers should utilize the AAB design for new applications. Nonetheless, existing applications, just as private applications being distributed to oversaw Google Play clients, are as of now excluded from this necessity.
You can look at Google’s true blog entry to find out about Android App Bundles. Further, you can watch the Google for Games Developer Summit 2021, which will be live on July 12, to find out about Google’s application advancement plans for what’s to come.
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