Android Studio 3.0 新特性

Instant App Support

Android Studio 3.0 now lets you build Instant Apps. Android Instant Apps enable native Android applications to run on your device by launching a URL. Simply put, you can run an app on your device, without having to install it!

With Instant Apps, users can use a single feature of an app without having to install the app with all its other features. When users request a feature from an instant app, they receive only the code necessary to run that specific feature, no more and no less. After the users have finished using the feature, the system can dispose of the features’ code.

To provide this on-demand downloading of features, you need to break up your app into smaller modules and refactor them into feature modules.

When you build an instant app project, the build outputs are Instant App APKs that contain one or more feature APKs. Each feature APK is built from a feature module in your project and can be downloaded on demand by the user and launched as an instant app.

New York Times Crossword

The New York Times created a simple, but highly effective user experience: once you click their URL, you are immediately able to play the daily mini crossword puzzle. If you then want to continue playing puzzles, you can play one of the other free puzzles, wait for tomorrow’s daily puzzle, or subscribe using Play in-App Billing to access even more puzzles.

This Instant App has been used more frequently and those using the instant app have more than doubled the number of sessions. The more time someone spends in the app, the more likely they are to subscribe and remain a user, so this is an important metric for the team!

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