Android apps don’t normally take lengthy to obtain — just a few seconds on a good Wi-Fi connection, perhaps a minute or two when you’re on a crowded cell community. But when it’s important to obtain a handful of updates without delay, or worse, dozens of apps on a brand new cellphone, it may possibly take quite a bit longer. The Google Play Retailer is fixing that in its newest function replace.
As of now, your Android cellphone or pill can replace or set up as much as three purposes without delay, maximizing the bandwidth of any sooner connection. Beforehand the system may queue up a string of virtually limitless app installations, however solely downloaded and put in them one by one, which may critically drag when you had dozens of recent ones to get by way of for a brand new cellphone setup.
Simultaneous downloads turned out there earlier this yr, in accordance with 9to5Google, however just for model new app installations. The method may additionally drag down because it wouldn’t really set up the subsequent app till the earlier one was completed — the longest a part of the method when you have a number of smaller apps to get by way of. Now the system ought to work throughout installations and updates.
It’s price noting that the three-at-once functionality is one thing the App Retailer on iPhones and iPads has had for a very long time. This repair is a small quality-of-life tweak, however as somebody who’s continuously attempting out new telephones and tablets (or setting them up for family and friends, since I’m the designated tech assist particular person), I respect it.