After first unveiling the Android Instant Apps platform at Google I/O 2016,
the web giant is finally taking steps to introduce the new initiative
to the public. If you hit up the source link, you will land on a list of
app within the Play Store that already support the technology and thus
have a new "Try Now" button. Pressing it actually launches the
particular app, or at least parts of it instantly, without having to go
through a traditional install process.
To participate in the neat little public demonstration of one aspect of
Instant Apps technology you do have to be running a fairly recent
Android OS: Android 5.0 (API level 21) through Android 8.0 (API level
26). Support for the feature also needs to be enabled from the Google
settings interface on the device. Lastly, there might be some market
limitations or a staged roll-out in place, so, if you only see the
familiar old "Install" button after going through all the steps, you
should try a different device or wait a bit, since this is only the
beginning.
We are likely to see a lot more Instant Apps in the future, especially
since adapting an existing app to use the technology is a fairly easy
process and the end result has massive potential benefits. If you are
not familiar with the technology, you can sort of view Instant Apps as a
way to "stream" Android applications. The idea is that you don't
necessarily need to store an app locally on your device for it to work.
Instead, Google is experimenting with a much more flexible design model,
where a user would only be presented with parts of an app that are
relevant to his current activity.
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