Imagine playing a game while it downloads and having an updated game dashboard.
Android 12 launch day is approaching. Google has a great marketing strategy to get people excited about its upcoming update by teasing them. An exciting cool feature they teased their fans about is how the next Android update will let you play the game you are downloading as it downloads. Great…Is it not?
Google holds a conference for developers with the interest of creating and publishing something for their platform. Similarly, this update news came from the Google for Games Developer Summit 2021 conference. During this conference, in its keynote, users got told how the service will allow a person to “get into gameplay in seconds while game assets are downloaded intelligently in the background.”
This feature of playing as it downloads is not yet fully ready for the public to see. However, Google did provide an example with an animation of a BMX -style game that is 127MB and was ready to play after only 20% of its data getting downloaded.
This whole downloading-as-you-play is not a new thought in the gaming industry but Android apps did not apply it till now. Mainly because mobile games are much smaller in size contrasted with console games.
When you start the download of a game, a progress bar will appear on the page of the Play Store, as soon as the game is ready to play, the “play” button will appear. If you do not see the'”play” button, you will have to stay on the play store page of the app you are downloading until it gets ready.
Download Game from Cloud
It sounds like you need a really strong internet connection to download the game and all its features from the cloud.
Furthermore, another feature that Google announced it’s adding to Android 12 is an updated game dashboard. This launcher feature has gotten included in many Android offerings for a long time by various manufacturers like OnePlus, Asus, and Samsung.
Pokémon Go
I play Pokémon Go on my OnePlus 9, and I like how easy it is to screen record the game without interruptions. A similar feature will get offered by Google called Game Mode API. This feature will provide many traits like an easy button of screen recording and stopping whenever you want, a frame-rate monitor, a”Do Not Disturb” toggle, and you can adjust the screen without going into your notification center. Furthermore, other shortcuts have also gotten found by XDA, that will allow live-stream your gameplay onto YouTube, also will add a performance and battery saver mode, and you will get your stats displayed on a widget.
This Pixel feature normally is the first to have software updates, and these Pixel features are likely to be the first since other phone manufacturers make their offerings.
