Although everyone's purpose of buying a mobile phone is very different, with the support of a powerful software store, installing your favorite games through the store App is a basic skill that every modern mobile phone user has heard or used. However, downloading games will ultimately It depends on each person's own network environment and the storage capacity required when downloading the game. In any case, after pressing download, you will always have to wait for a while before you can open the game to play. Now Google plans to help you save even this time Come on, in the latest Android 12, the function of "download and play" is used to attract everyone's attention:
▲Android 12 has prepared a big gift for gamers this time, which is the function of downloading and playing (picture Source)
The advent and popularity of smart phones has broken many past habits. For example, in the game area, with the power of mobile phone hardware, more and more developers are choosing mobile platforms to develop games. This phenomenon I can’t say it’s good or bad, but for mobile phone users, there are indeed far more game choices than in the past when feature phones were still available.
Due to the advancement of hardware, games pay more and more attention to details and picture quality, this can be said to be a complementary phenomenon. However, it still takes a long time to wait from downloading the game to starting playing. Some online games still have a long update time after downloading, which makes people impatient. But because most games must go through these "baptisms", even if it is not convenient for players, they can only choose to wait:
▲The process of waiting for downloading is always painful, not to mention that it is not every Everyone has a high-speed Internet (picture source)
Google has planned to make games available on-demand in the past. This can be said from the launch of the Google Play Instant function in 2018. Although it is a new function, its main focus is You can play directly without installing the game, but the scope of those games is relatively limited. The content of the relatively popular installation-free games is still mainly in the category of sketch games, and it is almost impossible to see any masterpieces on such a platform. came out. However, Google Play Instant is still a good attempt to explore a more convenient way to play games.
What Google plans to launch on Android this time is a further game mode. Officially called Play as you download Although this term is not a proper term yet, players who are familiar with games may have some impression of this term, because there are similar "download and play" mechanisms on PS4, Xbox and other platforms. Even Steam on PC It can also do this (note: Steam does not enable this feature by default and must be set separately). The mobile platform may have its own considerations, so it is not as enthusiastic as the console or game platform in this regard:
▲The official comparison uses animated pictures to see whether the same game supports downloading and playing at the same time. There is a difference in the speed of entering the game (picture source)
Google has no knowledge of this technology There are too many explanations, and the only feature mentioned is that you can download and play at the same time. But when the download and play function is in operation, it only takes a few seconds for players to enter the game. The time to enter the game is at least twice as fast as in the past. . It can be imagined that this is the result of Google’s unique download technology and its continuous efforts to enhance the gaming experience:
▲Although this feature is already very popular on game consoles, it is new to mobile phones. (Picture source)
However, whether players can feel the convenience brought by this technology at this stage may still depend on whether App developers are willing to adopt this technology. It can be guessed that Android 12 will be popularized for a period of time After time, there will still be the possibility of two modes running in parallel. On the one hand, it may be a traditional game, which must wait for the download and update to be completed, and on the other hand, it may be a game blessed by new technology, where you can play the game and download a short program in the game. After that, you can start to experience the game first, and the subsequent content is waiting to be downloaded.
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