Google is building an archived APK tool that will let Android phone users archive an app without uninstalling it and reclaim up to 60 percent of storage space.
Google is working on a new app archiving system for Android phones that will allow users to free up precious internal storage without having to uninstall the app or losing the linked data. It is no secret that Android phones come preloaded with a ton of bloatware hogging the onboard storage. For users who are into mobile gaming or count their phone as part of their multimedia-heavy workflow, every gigabyte of storage is crucial.
Google says the app archiving system will allow users to free up to 60 percent of the storage space taken up by an app. Google plans to seed the archived APKs tool to developers with the release of the upcoming version of Bundletool 1.10. The company’s blog post defines Archived APKs as “very small APKs that preserve user data until the app is restored.” The feature will be rolled out for Android smartphone users later this year, most likely as part of the Android 13 update.
Take for example the T-Mobile version of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, which comes preloaded with 89 apps, a sizeable number of which are deemed essential apps that can only be disabled but can’t be installed to clean up storage space. This is a phone that starts at $1,199 and doesn’t even allow storage expansion. The situation gets even worse for cheaper phones. But Samsung is not the only brand with the bloatware problem, as the likes of Xiaomi and Vivo engage in similar tactics.
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