By default, APKs generated from the Android App Bundle have the native libraries uncompressed on devices with Android M / API level 23 or higher (source). Not only does that often reduce the download size but that also considerably reduce the size of the app on devices since the Android platform can directly read the … Read more
To use the option ndk debugSymbolLevel as written in the docs you need an android gradle plugin 4.1 or later. At the time of writing the lastest 4.1 version is 4.1.2 You will need also to install ndk and cmake for android studio. In your android build.gradle you need the to set android gradle plugin … Read more
Edit: The PlayCore API now supports downloading the strings for another language on-demand: https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/feature-delivery/on-demand#lang_resources Alternative solution (discouraged): You can disable the splitting by language by adding the following configuration in your build.gradle android { bundle { language { // Specifies that the app bundle should not support // configuration APKs for language resources. These // … Read more
You could use something like this: defaultConfig { applicationId “com.test.app” versionCode 1 versionName “1.0” setProperty(“archivesBaseName”, applicationId + “-v” + versionCode + “(” + versionName + “)”) }
Try Below Options to Enable Internal App Sharing Option 1: Step 1: Open Play store. Step 2: Navigate to Setting. (Click on the account profile picture. which is located at the top right corner of the screen) Step 3: To Enable Developer Options. (Goto > About Section. and Tap seven times on the Play Store … Read more
This is almost certainly users sharing (sideloading) the app, either via P2P sharing programs, or uploading the APK to the web then other users downloading and installing from the web. People used to dealing with non Android App Bundle apps just transfer and share the main APK. But your App bundle app has lots of … Read more
App Bundles are a publishing format, whereas APK (Android application PacKage) is the packaging format which eventually will be installed on device. App Bundles use bundletool to create a set of APK. (.apks) This can be extracted and the base and configuration splits as well as potential dynamic feature modules can be deployed to a … Read more
So far nobody has provided the solution to get the APK from an AAB. This solution will generate a universal binary as an apk. Add –mode=universal to your bundletool command (if you need a signed app, use the –ks parameters as required). bundletool build-apks –bundle=/MyApp/my_app.aab –output=/MyApp/my_app.apks –mode=universal MAIN STEP: Change the output file name from … Read more