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Google will require AAB to save space on Android TV and Google TV

Android TV and Google TV They have a serious problem with storage. While mobiles begin to have the floor at 64GB, smart TVs, in general, usually incorporate only 8GB. As a result, and with the operating system taking up more and more space, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that what’s left for apps is rather sparse, since user data is usually supplied via some external device.

Due to the space problems that smart televisions with Android TV and Google TV are presenting, the Mountain View giant has decided boost the use of Android App Bundle (AAB) as a substitute for direct use of APK in order to save space.

According to Google, AAB has a 20% smaller average size compared to the direct use of APKs because the package that is generated is adapted to the device; thanks to that it allows archive applications with a gain of up to 60% of the space occupied for each app, the user is less likely to uninstall it; it is applicable to all Android surfaces; facilitates delivery by serving a single artifact with all application code and resources; In addition to being able to provide more security by allowing developers to restore the load key if it is lost or compromised.

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The Mountain View corporation has said that Google TV and Android TV will start requiring AAB from May 2023, so you have given six months to make the transition. He has also calculated that in most cases it would only take an engineer three days on average to migrate from APK to AAB. We’ll see how application developers take this, seeing that they are generally a sector that tends to reject changes except when they come from Apple.

AAB is not a new invention and not only that, but it has already been implemented in the mobile version of Android. According to its official documentation, “it is a publication format that includes all the resources and the compiled code of your app, but delegates the generation of the APK and the signing to Google Play. Google Play uses your app bundle to build and deliver APKs optimized for each device’s configuration, so only the code and resources needed to run your app on a specific device are downloaded.”

Of course, seeing that mobile phones have established the storage floor at tens of gigabytes, it is probable that AAB will not work any miracle in the endbut at least it would have to be a gain for the users.

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