What are Google Play Instant Apps

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Native Android apps, without the installation
With Google Play Instant, people can tap to try an app or game without installing it first. Increase engagement with your Android app and gain more installs by surfacing your instant app across the Play Store, Google Search, social networks, and anywhere you share a link.
Android’s new app publishing format, the Android App Bundle, makes it easier than ever to offer a Google Play Instant experience. Starting from the Android Studio 3.3 beta release, you can build and publish one app bundle artifact to Google Play containing both instant and dynamic feature modules. Build instant games easily with Cocos and Unity plug-ins.
Google Play Instant is open to all app and game developers.


These apps will give the experience to use it and test it on the device without the need to download the whole app. This method is suitable with games because the user first wants to know whether the app would work on their device and this thing cannot be understood from the screenshots on the Play Store.

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