Google is seemingly planning to ship the ‘parallel downloads’ characteristic to the Play Retailer. The newest model of the Google Play Retailer is pointing in that route, it’s not only a rumor.
Google Play Retailer may quickly provide the ‘parallel downloads’ characteristic
Based on findings by AssembleDebug, the Google Play Retailer 40.0.13 is the model in query right here. Enabling particular flags produced the supply with the power to obtain a number of apps on the identical time.
That sounds nice, proper? Effectively, sure, however the characteristic doesn’t appear to work with updates. It solely works upon the preliminary set up of a selected app, which is nowhere close to as helpful as having one thing like this for updates.
Google additionally positioned a cap on the variety of simultaneous downloads you may conduct. Solely two may be downloaded on the identical time. Do be aware that AssembleDebug managed to push that as much as 5, although, by way of the code.
One thing comparable was noticed 4 years in the past
If all of this sounds acquainted, there’s a great cause for it. This characteristic was in testing 4 years in the past. It by no means got here to be, nevertheless, and it functioned a bit in a different way again then.
That being mentioned, Google appears to be extra severe this time round. We may really see this characteristic arrive as a typical characteristic within the close to future. Google remains to be within the testing section, although, so… who is aware of how lengthy will that take.
It could be nice if Google would contemplate tweaking this characteristic additional, nevertheless. In two methods, first, and extra importantly, for this to work with app updates. Additionally, second, for the characteristic to work with greater than two apps on the identical time.
That being mentioned, there’s additionally an opportunity Google will scrap all the pieces, in fact. The corporate didn’t verify this characteristic is coming or something of the type, so we can’t know for positive.