Google wants Android users to install their apps faster on their Android devices. 9to5Google has discovered something new in the Google Play Store called “App Installation Optimization” that will use crowd information to make it happen. As Google explains: “If you enable app installation optimization, Google can tell you which parts of an app you use the first time you open it after installation. When enough people do that, Google can optimize the app to install, open and run faster for everyone. ‘And even though Crowdsourcing is used to make it work, no personal data like your name and email address is shared.
The crowdsourced feature “also does not look at anything outside the app, like other apps or content on your device. It also does not collect information about content uploaded or downloaded in the app, such as images in a social stream, or rankings on a leaderboard. “What Google is doing is combining your data with data from other users to ‘find trends and identify which parts of the program are most important to everyone’. This information, says Google, will take time which it takes to install apps from Google Play speeds up, reduces the amount of time it takes to open and manage a specific app, and reduces the stress on your device’s CPU, battery and storage.
A new crowdsourcing feature wants to speed up the installation of an app from the Google Play Store
Let’s look at an example, shall we? Suppose, after installing Instagram on your phone, you spend the first ten minutes creating your profile and finding friends. If Google discovers that most people follow the same routine when installing the app in the Play Store, Google will take care of the first parts of Instagram that are installed from the Play Store, creating profiles and finding friends. The story viewer and the files needed to put in the app will remain deleted until you try to use it or your signal gets stronger. And instead of opening the entire app in RAM at once, your phone may only load the parts of the app you use the most, reducing the amount of RAM used while reducing the voltage on your phone’s processor .
Android users who are not satisfied with the optimization of app installations can sign up for the feature, although it will simply prevent your data from being used in Crowdsourcing. You will still benefit from the faster installation times created when other Android users’ data is collected by Google. Version 25.5.13 of the Google Play Store refers to the feature which means we can see it in the Google Play Store soon.
