Gaming industry has always been dynamic and has come up with revolutionary steps to better the gaming experiences of their consumers. Game Developers Conference, or in short, GDC is known as the biggest event in the gaming industry. This conference provides an amazing platform to gamers and developers all around the world to create the best and know what is the industry all over the world is up to. Well, this year GDC has got Google to bring an advanced feature for Android users.
Google launched its new feature- Google Instant Apps for developers in the last year allowing their various users to experience applications even before installing them on their device. This feature is also made available for the games present on Google Play Store as well. This particular feature lets the user play a demo game without actually downloading it on their phones. It saves a lot of storage space and lets the user make a wise and infirmed choice.
Google Play Instant’s Birth at Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2018
“With Google Play Instant, you can just tap and try a game without having to download it first”- read an Official Google Blog introducing the brand new feature. Google Play Store is said to be the house of a large collection of games, applications, movies, books, music, etc. With the newest Android Oreo and the in-line for a brand new launch, Android P, our approach has been shifted to focusing on security and user experience. The feature of Google Play Instant is a huge step in the direction of this shift. It has reinforced the idea of making the user experience better as well as enhanced.
Right now, the project of Google Play Instant is still worked out in the beta version to test the functions of the feature out. However, some of the games have been instantly linked with Google Play Instant. The feature has been supporting those applications by playing their demos and letting the users experience, before they make any choice.
Google Play Instant: A Boon for Developers
Google Play Instant is deemed to be a tool for developers. Why? It is because Google Play Instant is designed to provide the user an interesting experience by attracting them to play the newly launched games. The designated size of a demo file is fixed at 10 MB, on the other hand for applications the size is fixed at 2 MB. This size difference is due to the fact, that game comprises of a series of graphics and composition which takes up more space than an application. This provision brought by Google, is an absolute perk for people who are using Android. Google Play Instant helps the user to make a choice on Google Play Store, as there are a large number of games present there.
It is important to note that, as a game becomes more advanced and complex it takes up a greater space as well. Therefore, if you make a decision of downloading a game of your choice without any prior experience and after installing it you realize that you do not like the game, then you have to remove the game from your system by uninstalling it. Some people do not uninstall the game, even if they do not like it. It just lays there in their storage taking up unnecessary storage space. All in all, Google Play Instant is a user-friendly feature enabling the user for making a well-informed and wise choice.
Features of Google Play Instant
- With Google Instant application feature for developers, users were given the option of “Try Now” along with the “Install Now” option. As you opt for the Try Now option, it launches the demo of the application or the game on your device without even installing any of it.
- It operates in the same way in which a webpage or a web-based app gets loaded. There is no obligation of assigning a designated amount of your storage, if you want to try out the variety of applications in the market. If you do not want the application, just press the back button.
- If you want to try Google Play Instant on your device, go to Google Play Store, and you will see the “Try Now” button on the pages of applications and games which are compatible with this brand new feature. Click on “Try Now” to load the game. It will take a few seconds.
- While you are experiencing a game demo on Google Play Instant feature, it plays for limited duration of time. It generally lasts up to a minute or so. Google has also revamped Google Play Store to enhance the compatibility of this feature.
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