Google has announced Android App Bundles, a new file format that includes all your app’s compiled code and resources, but which allows Google Play to generate and serve optimized .apks for each ...

Android App Bundles, which may be shortened to AABs, will change the way Android apps are packaged and, more importantly, delivered.

Google may be starting to enforce mandatory app bundles on the Play Store, and killing off easily installable APKs in the process.

Announced on the Android Developers Google blog yesterday, APK s or Android Application Packages will be phased out as the standard publishing format over time in favor of the new AABs.

Now, Part 3 will take you through the steps to build and run the app in an Android device emulator or live device. We’ll first use Gradle to build the app’s application package (APK) file.

Many of the updates in Flutter 1.2 are focused on stability and performance, but there’s an interesting addition in the shape of support for Android App Bundles.

In addition to sideloading Android apps in Windows 11, you’ll be able to install app bundles through the Amazon Appstore, offering a bit of hope on the horizon for cross-compatibility.

Google introduced the Android App Bundle format in May of 2018 at I/O as part of its modern development push. The AAB standard will become the default for new applications published to the Play ...