The main problem than most televisions and devices with Google TV and Android TV is internal storage. While in mobile phones they usually offer at least 64 GB of storage, in televisions we find that most manufacturers offer just 8 GB of storagethe same capacity since the arrival of the first Android TVs in 2014.
Google is aware of this problem and has started to improve the storage of current devices, adding with Android 12 the automatic deletion of temporary files to be able to install more applications, but now they have announced a bigger step: Google TV and Android TV will Say goodbye to APKs to enjoy all the benefits of the Android App Bundle.
The App Bundle will be mandatory on Android TV and Google TV
The bone Android App Bundles (AAB) are currently the standard publishing format on Google Play which has come to replace the Android Package Kits (APK). While an APK installs the complete application on the device with all its languages and functions, in a Android app bundle only the application with the appropriate language, resolution and functions to operate is installed, which On average, an application takes up 20% less storage space. But that’s not all.
Last March, Google announced that we were going to be able to archive applications to free up space on our Android devices, a feature confirmed for the end of this year and which was discovered a few weeks ago in the Play Store. Well now that app archives will also come to Google TV and Android TV.
Of May 2023Google TV and Android TV will require archiving of Android app bundles and thus allow its users save storage space on your TVs and compatible devices.
Google reports that an archived app will free up 60% of its sizeallowing the user to not have to completely uninstall the application so that it is quick to retrieve it later to use it again.
Android TV and Google TV will offer fast archiving/unarchiving interface integrated into the TV. Developers will be able to adapt their applications to this new archive in order to maintain the state of the application for its unarchiving. That is to say that while an uninstallation would cause all data to be lost, with an archive one would return to the previous state of the application after it has been unarchived, it is also faster to unarchive a application than to reinstall it, since part of its data is already downloaded.
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