Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps

© Peter Späth 2018

Peter SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3820-2_17

17. Instant Apps

Peter Späth¹ 

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Leipzig, Germany

 

Instant apps allow a device user to use apps without actually installing them. On the Google Play store, the “Try it” button you sometimes see starts such an instant app.

Developing Instant Apps

To develop instant apps, there is a switch you can use while creating an Android app, as shown in Figure 17-1.

Figure 17-1

Adding instant app features

Say you named the project instantapp; the wizard creates four modules, as shown here:

• base

  Contains the basis for both the normal installable app variant and the instant ...