Google will require new apps on the Play Store to use App Bundles instead of APKs
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- Anonymous
- 6wN
- 02 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2021Yes perfect customer Moo Moo MooWhy not?
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- Lilian
- 3cr
- 02 Jul 2021
So Google is pretending that stores are officially "allowed" now but will require apps to strictly depend on their Google Play Services in order to distributed the app on the biggest Android store...
Even more lock in than before...
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- Anonymous
- pk4
- 01 Jul 2021
Akashraj, 01 Jul 2021Dude, did you even read the article? Old apps can continue ... moremore time and effort for publishers meaning that they have increased cost which they may pass to consumer or have google ads pushed more worsening the experience for end users if they dont spend money
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- sxr
- 01 Jul 2021
old devices still programable to run or can't update playstore but still run? :)
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- Anonymous
- gx4
- 01 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2021Whatever Google and Microsoft do I'm not against. Ever... moreYes perfect customer
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- 01 Jul 2021
So can anyone confirm if I understand correctly..
1- App bundle need internet connection to be installed.. Apk not.
2- Extracted Apk / downloaded Apk can be installed on any phone since the it contains all necessary files .. App bundle is not (can it be extracted? And if so, will it work on other phones?)
Thanks in advance knowledgeable stranger.
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- Anonymous
- 6wN
- 01 Jul 2021
Whatever Google and Microsoft do I'm not against. Everything works fine for me.
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- SamBoy
- i84
- 01 Jul 2021
Why all these negative comments? I knew about this feature for a while and I hoped more developers would use it, with aabs you save data and storage. It's awesome that's mandatory now!
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- v{u
- 01 Jul 2021
They are going to restrict third party modded apk installation. So no more free download of paid applications. it is going to be like a Apple app store
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- Anonymous
- XBJ
- 01 Jul 2021
So what this means is that when this feature gets implemented I would have comparability issues when I receive apps offline from other phones on my phone's.thats bad because some apps size are so large that it makes more sense to download it on one phone and share it offline to the others instead of wasting data
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- Anonymous
- gx4
- 01 Jul 2021
So does this mean there won't be any moded apk anymore?
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- Cyberchum
- Nu6
- 01 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2021They got benifitted massively from other works like Samsung... moreNo, the whole world doesn't! I'm sure you could use third party app stores on android. Heck, all android phones in China use third party stores, because it's possible.
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- Cyberchum
- Nu6
- 01 Jul 2021
wow, 01 Jul 2021Some of the comments show that most have no idea of that th... moreNothing new. Most commenters here talk way too much, but say so little. Seems they are just sad with their lives. Shame.
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- Fais
- rJh
- 01 Jul 2021
Looks promising, let's see after it's implementation
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- Cyberchum
- Nu6
- 01 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2021Tyrannical Google tsking advantage of open source nature of... moreSomeone should help make this make sound sense.
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- Anonymous
- vGV
- 01 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2021I feel Google will be sued for anti-trust violations very s... moreThey got benifitted massively from other works like Samsung, Song and Huawei who contributed to AOSP and took full advantage and locked fown the whole world of Android behind the stupid Playstore.
The whole world revolves around Plsystore and Appstore think about it.
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- Anonymous
- TL%
- 01 Jul 2021
I feel Google will be sued for anti-trust violations very soon. Android was meant to be an open platform and Google is turning it into another iOS.
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- fIW
- 01 Jul 2021
Akashraj, 01 Jul 2021I believe apkpure can also install apk bundle just fine. So... moreBut do remember that APKPure doesn't support paid apps. Same story with Aurora Store.
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- fIW
- 01 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2021Plz list the disadvantage of aab over apk?SlashGear wrote an article about it: https://www.slashgear.com/android-app-bundles-could-have-a-drawback-for-developers-power-users-19648220/
Inside that article, there's a hyperlink to an XDA article: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-android-app-bundle-play-store/
In layman terms, AAB doesn't allow you to install apps offline on other smartphone models. APK can easily do that since you can directly install the app from internal or external storage with no problem at all.