As of July 2021, the standard file format of Android apps is APK, but from August 2021, Google announced that new apps on Google Play will need to be published as 'Android App Bundle (AAB)'. did. AAB ...

Android TV is going to be less storage-greedy in the future. Google announced that Android’s space-saving app file format, Android App Bundles (AABs), will finally be the standard on Android TV. By ...

Google started rolling out the App Bundle platform back in 2018, which allowed developers to split their apps into different components. Thus, making it easier for the developers to update their apps, ...

The standard for mobile and TV apps has been APK (Android Package Kit) for a long time. It is slowly being replaced by AAB (Android App Bundle), which allows for faster and smaller applications that ...

Android 15’s new app archiving feature works with apps distributed as both APKs and Android App Bundles. In contrast, the Google Play Store’s app archiving feature only works with apps distributed as ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...