Google has announced Android App Bundles, a new file format that includes all your app’s compiled code and resources, but which allows Google Play to generate and serve optimized .apks for each ...

Fortunately for them, Google Play Store's Android App Bundle requirement, which becomes effective in August, only applies to new apps submitted to the app store.

Google wants to control everything Google Play dumps APKs for the more Google-controlled “Android App Bundle” Starting in August, new apps will need to turn over their signing keys to Google.

By default, the Google Play Console will take your App Bundle and generate APKs targeting all of the different screen densities, languages, and Application Binary Interfaces (ABI) your application ...

That’s because starting in August, Google will require developers who publish apps to the Google Play Store to package them as Android App Bundles, or .aab files.

Apps can now request that the Play Store download resources for a new language configuration. It is also adding a more streamlined way of publishing instant-enabled app bundles.

Starting August of this year, apps under the Google Play store will be required to utilize the Android App Bundle rather than the standard APK format.

In a nutshell, Android App Bundles is a new publishing format that will generate APKs that are specific to a device, without any of the parts that are applicable to other devices but not to yours.

Google introduced the Android App Bundle format in May of 2018 at I/O as part of its modern development push. The AAB standard will become the default for new applications published to the Play ...