Starting May 2023, Google Play will require that apps built for Android TV and Google TV be uploaded as Android App Bundles (AAB) with app archiving support enabled. This is great news since TVs often have far less storage than smartphones/tablets. TV apps that haven’t transitioned to AAB may be hidden from users on “the TV surface”.
Android TV & Google TV support for app archiving wasn’t mentioned in the original announcement for this feature, but I spotted hints for this back in June.
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If you want to know how app archiving works under the hood, this blog post I wrote covers what you need to know about the new “archived APK” format it relies on.
And if you want to see what app archiving looks like on mobile, here’s a demo. (Full details on today’s announcement are in this blog post.)
