Android 12 is part of a huge change made by the Google company for games, and we talked to you last week about what is going to be officially announced by the Americans. We told you that Google is going to offer the possibility to play various games while they are being downloaded on Android 12 phones, and this was officially confirmed by the company over the weekend, and offered together with the version the latest beta.
Android 12 is going to allow us to install truncated versions of the games on our phones and start playing as the games are fully downloaded, something we have also seen with other operating systems. Google offers this new functionality especially for very large games, and the image below shows quite clearly how this new functionality within Android 12 is going to be offered for phones.
Android 12: Google's Incredible New Games Announcement
Android 12 is going to offer this special functionality to make it easier for game developers to provide a much better experience for phones, especially for titles that are very large. Developers will have to use the Play Asset system so that Android 12 can offer this special functionality for phones, but the system is designed to be as simple as possible to use, so there shouldn't be any big problems with it.
“Play Asset Delivery (PAD) brings the benefits of app bundles to games. Allows games larger than 150MB to replace legacy expansion files (OBBs) by publishing a single Play artifact that contains all the resources the game needs. PAD offers flexible delivery modes, automatic updates, compression and delta patches and is free. Using PAD, all asset packs are hosted and served on Google Play, eliminating the need to use a content delivery network (CDN) to deliver game assets to your players.”
Android 12 has everything offered for phones starting with the official version that will be released in August, but in models from Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, LG, OnePlus, Motorola, etc., it will arrive much later. In the case of those who have Huawei phones, there is no question of having this major change brought by Android 12, at least if we are talking about the models released in the last 2 years, so they will remain without access to the benefits.
Android 12 has a lot of extremely interesting news that are ready to be offered, but it is also necessary for manufacturers to provide timely updates for customers.
