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Build app bundles for Google Play
From the course: Android Studio Essential Training
Build app bundles for Google Play
- [Instructor] When you're ready to deploy your application through the Google play store, you need to package it, using a format known as an app bundle. Android Studio supports building both APK files and older format and app bundles. To get started with this process, go to the menu and choose build, generate signed bundle slash APK. Here's the difference between the two formats, an APK contains everything that's needed for all Android versions and all supported devices. And that means that it can have multiple versions of resources, such as image files and other files that can really bloat the package and make it take longer to download. And that bundle in contrast is structured, so that individual APKs for particular devices can be created by the Google play library. So when the user requests an application from Google play, they'll be downloading an APK, but it will only include the content that's needed for their device.…
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