{"id":181111,"date":"2025-06-13T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181111\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:53:09","slug":"google-is-shutting-down-android-instant-apps-over-low-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181111\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over \u2018low\u2019 usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google has confirmed that it plans to shut down Android\u2019s Instant Apps later this year, attributing the decision to \u201clow\u201d usage of the functionality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Instant Apps were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/17\/15649372\/google-android-instant-apps-available-io-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced in 2017<\/a>, and allow developers to create mini versions of Android apps that load, well, instantly. Users can try apps and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/19\/17137088\/instant-apps-game-developers-google-play-mobile-ads-agones-kubernetes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demo games<\/a> from the click of a link, without having to fully install them. That makes the experience easier for users to navigate and provides developers with more ways to find new audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-killing-android-instant-apps-3567211\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android Authority<\/a> first reported that Google is moving on from the feature, which came to light after developer Leon Omelan spotted a warning about the change in Android Studio:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote ewrhy30 _1xwtict9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">\u201cInstant Apps support will be removed by Google Play in December 2025. Publishing and all Google Play Instant APIs will no longer work. Tooling support will be removed in Android Studio Otter Feature Drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google spokesperson Nia Carter confirmed the decision to The Verge, explaining that Instant Apps simply haven\u2019t been popular enough to continue supporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cUsage and engagement of Instant Apps have been low, and developers are leveraging other tools for app discovery such as AI-powered app highlights and simultaneous app installs,\u201d Carter says. \u201cThis change allows us to invest more in the tools that are working well for developers, and help direct users to full app downloads to foster deeper engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has confirmed that it plans to shut down Android\u2019s Instant Apps later this year, attributing the decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2061,867,547,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-181111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114676158123697368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}