Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
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Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
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... I literally used this for the first time today. Sorry everyone!
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Ah, so that's how they finally got the usage metric
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I think you're probably the first person in years to do that.
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Good it was a dumb idea.
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The whats ?
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So how the OS already catches links to e.g. YouTube and offers to open it directly in the app, it could also do that for apps that weren't installed and it'd just download and run them automatically. One of the examples was Vimeo, instead of loading the website it'd download a cut down variant of the normal app and load the video in that instead.
The idea was to push people towards using apps instead, but now Google control the web they can just make that their app store instead, so native apps aren't as relevant anymore.
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Ok, ty !
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Good. Always seemed like a potential security risk.
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Happy cake day and thanks for all your contributions here.
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Not surprising, most of them were just web wrappers, anyway. I've not used them that often, but they feel like they're basically just bloatier PWAs.
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Any app can be a bloated web page with or without pwa.
Instant apps were a really cool concept that never got traction because documentation was negative - those cases where every single bit of information you find, most of it is outdated and the updated one, if exists, is not to be found.
Many times since the beta release I had discussions about these, and I've known people seasoned in Android native trying to pull off a basic proof of concept and unable to get started.
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