The archive function in Android will now partially uninstall mobile apps 

Published March 11, 2022
Author: Ash Khan

The archive function in Android will now partially uninstall mobile apps 

Published March 11, 2022
Author: Ash Khan

Google is developing a service that will allow you to “archive” specific mobile apps in order to save up storage on your smartphone. Google notes in a blog article that any mobile app with the functionality will allow you to partially remove it, downsizing the application by around 60% without totally uninstalling it. 

It accomplishes this by developing a new sort of APK (Android Package) defined as archived APKs, which are the innards that make a mobile app usable on your smartphone. According to Google, archived APKs are substantially smaller and keep all of your data until you restore it, restoring it to its original size. The capability will be accessible to app developers with the Bundletool 1.10 release, but it will not be usable until Google makes the functionality available to the masses “later this 2022.” App Developers may also opt out of archived APKs, which Google discusses in the blog article. 

There are no specifics yet on how the functionality will display on Android – maybe it will display beside the uninstall choice when you long-press an app’s icon. In either case, archived APKs appear to be ideal for everyone (particularly, me) who has a cemetery of rarely used applications but is not ready to get over them quite yet (yet does not want them to eat up loads of storage capacity). If you’re not connected to Wi-Fi, archiving and then restoring apps ought to be significantly faster than reinstalling an application and it will probably use far fewer mobile data. 

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