Beginning this August. Developers who want to release new apps or games on the Google Play Store are now required to use a new app format, AAB, instead of the APK that has been in use for over ten years.
The AAB is the framework and method for compiling the files of today’s core applications. There are many differences between AAB and APK. But not substantial.
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New features for AAB files
The main benefit of this new type of file is the small space. It only allows you to get the files that belong to your phone. Thus, you do not need to download all the code for each application.
For example, if the user has a regular phone, the user will not need to download graphic elements designed for tablets.
The opposite happened with APK files that collected all the components of the application, whether they were useful to you during installation or not.
The same feature will be useful for sending updates to applications. App developers will no longer be able to send updates to certain parts of the app without having to update the entire app.
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Games make great use of this feature. Where the user is able to download the game normally. But when you download it for the first time, the advanced levels won’t load either, but when you access them.
Google Play Store Role
On the Google Play Store, the process of splitting APK files and improving their performance, and providing devices with the appropriate files when doing the download process.
AAB files are not as new as some might think, but company Google had launched it in 2018 with Android 9, but it was not so insistent on making developers use it.
However, Google has I said The top 1,000 apps on the App Store are already using the AAB format in app development. There is no doubt that the new technology will favor older phones, since they are usually characterized by small storage space and poor processing capacity. So a light and small app like AAB apps would be ideal.
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Only AAB format is used on the Google Play Store at the moment. This means that developers, even after using them, will have to release traditional APK versions to other stores, such as the Amazon Store, which is important because Microsoft will rely on it in Windows 11.
The new AAB standard is open source, like all Google products. So other stores can move to it as well, but there’s a major problem with that, which is that part of the way this formula works depends on Google’s cloud services.
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Currently, if you are an ordinary user and rely only on the Google Play Store, you will not be affected in any negative way, on the contrary, the effects will be positive.
If you are a developer, or you use an external app store, the impact will be strong on you. Of course, Android support for the APK application format will not stop. But we do not know whether there will be restrictions on the part of Google or not. Of course, we do not know the fate of the feature of running Android applications through Windows 11.
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