archive it and retrieve it whenever you want

While Android 12L is already coming to Google Pixels, we know we’ll soon have the ability to partially uninstall an app so that it does not use so much space and that we have the possibility of recovering it whenever we want. Best of all is that the application will continue to be in the system so that we can retrieve it whenever we want and thus avoid downloading it.

The magic happens with a new type of APK

Via The Verge, it is known that the method used by Google, and illustrated from a blog post, is based on create a new type of APK which you called Archived APK. The same big G indicates that this type of APK uses less space and allows the user to save data until one wants to recover it.

Following the same instructions from Google, this new feature is already available to developers

Now it remains to be seen how it will appear on our mobiles, since it could be a option to have in app settings where one can clean the storage cache or activate the battery saver, or simply with access directly from the app drawer.

This new feature of Android is very useful for applications that we usually use from time to time in order to archive them and get them back when we’re going to use them. As for Android phones that do not have so much storage space, it can be very useful. save up to 60% and thus leave memory for other types of files such as multimedia content.

The same thing happens with the download data log in order to have a series of applications that when we do not even have the possibility of using mobile data, we can restore them to use them.

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