Last summer, during the Google Games Summit 2021, the company launched the “Play while you download” beta program, an important feature of the play store for Android 12 which is not yet available for all its users, something that will change soon.
This afternoon was celebrated Google Games Summit of 2022, and in its conference Google announced that ‘Play while you download’ will arrive soon to all devices running Android 12 along with other new features that will make it easier for developers to bring their games to more screens and users.
It’s ‘Play while you download’
This Android 12 feature does not yet have a release date. Google limited itself to saying that ‘Play while you download’ will soon be available for all Android 12 users and all pools point out that we will have new news at the latest in May during Google I/O 2022.
As the name suggests, “Play by Downloading” allows Android 12 users to start playing a new game without having to wait for it to completely download. Thanks to Android App Bundle already Delivery of game elements, it will download the basic components to be able to play your first game while the rest of the game files will continue to download in the background. According to Google, within seconds we can play a game.
Google improved this feature still in beta in the March Google Play Services update. One of its novelties was improvements in the “Play while you play” function reducing waiting times.
More news presented to Google
In this year’s edition of Google Games Summitthe company stressed that it wanted to bring Android games to all screens, noting that Android downloads on Chrome OS were up 50% year over year, with games being the most downloaded, and recalling that it A few months ago, they started beta testing Google Play Games for Windows in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
To facilitate the high quality game development Google has also released new features in its developer tools. They released an Android game development extension for Visual Studio so that developers can add Android as a target platform in their existing Visual C++ game projects. They released a new library Memory Hints API (Beta) to Android Game Development Kit so that developers can understand the memory consumption of their games. And finally, they also launched a new Android Frame Profiler GPU Inspector so developers can detect when their game is bottlenecked on the GPU versus CPU for better speeds and battery life.
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