What would be the point?
I could see it maybe being useful for certain large games that you only play occasionally, but…
That’d mean redownloading right when you actually want to play, which is a pain. Also, in ability to tell it to archive or un-archive something manually makes that situation even worse.
It feels like those “ram doublers” back in the day… Neat in theory, but just painful in reality. It puts a check mark on a sales pitch, but doesn’t actually help anyone.
Yeah. For persistence and cross-device stuff, it makes more sense for it to be stored server-side. Either by the app author, or maybe Google could offer a few kB free for each app, like how Chrome provides a bit of storage for extension settings.
Backups. I have apps that I specifically won’t update for X reasons, and I have titanium backup to manage the backups. If I didn’t need root to manage backing up and restoring individual apps then I’d only have one or two more use for root.
Uhm. Newsflash. My Vanilla Android 9.1.0’s vanilla Play Store already does… 🙄
Edit: Apologies for the tone above. I deserve the downvotes. 😅
What “vanilla” play store do you have? I have Android phones running android 4 through 13 and none of them natively have something like that built in.
First off, my apologies for the tone of my first post. I am cyclothimic and sometimes (in bad moments) shouldn’t be on social media. Hard to draw that line sometimes, though.
Secondly, in a more positive manner and admitting my error in comparing native in Android to the Play Store: I had this message popup on a full phone in the Play Store if I wanted to enable it. It is now also in my Play Store settings underneath “Google Play Feedback”.
I have Play Store v39.4.23-21 [O] [PR] 599960585
It also only sometimes does Archiving, but not often. Usually it’ll just still pop-up the uninstall-other-apps popup as usual.
This is not something you can choose. It chooses the apps for you itself
True.
Just like Nextbit!
@FragmentedChicken If you have a device with less than 32 GB of storage, App Archival could do little to help you reclaim space (and I’m telling it from my experience). 60% is too little space saved when you use multiple apps. But otherwise, if you like to download apps because they seem interesting, and then you forget about them, this is a nifty feature indeed.
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