The Google application store is an old acquaintance for all Android users, it is always there, but many times we do not even realize the changes in this application for that very reason, because it is always there. But it is an app that is updated and offers very interesting new features. In this case we are going to see the latest news from Google Play Store: allows simultaneous download of applications. Let's see how it works and what limitations it has.
Improve efficiency in downloading applications
Downloads in the Google Play Store, as you know, are stack one after the other if you choose to download more than one app at the same time. As soon as one download finishes, the next one begins and so on.
The problem with this way of downloading apps is that when we downloaded a large app, the rest of the applications could wait a long time until the previous app finished its process. But you may not have this problem again since From now on you can download two applications at the same time time thanks to the simultaneous download function.
This means that we will be able to execute two downloads simultaneously as long as we have two or more apps waiting to be installed on the device. The only current way to make the most of your internet data speed is by directly downloading apps. That is, to see how the Play Store app performs a simultaneous download, you will have to download two or more applications at the same time.
You can't download faster but you can download better
Really, the time we are going to have to wait is going to continue. depending on the speed of our internet. But we will be able to use that time better because this way we will have less chance of two large apps coming together that block the rest of the downloads.
This solves a problem for the user who has been with the app practically since its beginning. Who knows if soon we can say goodbye to another problem like the annoying download pending message.
Of course, this functionality presents some limitations which we hope will be resolved in the future.
Simultaneous download is not valid for updates
For now, this new functionality, with which Google experimented years ago, does not allow downloading updates simultaneously. Now, this is a bit strange since, as a general rule, we do not download many apps at the same time.
But where downloads do accumulate is in the updates of the different apps that we already have installed. These applications they usually stand still, creating what is known as a funnel or bottleneck, until we connect to a WiFi network (depending on whether you have configured automatic updates or not) and the process can become very slow.
In addition, this process can be even more cumbersome since app downloads are not filtered by size. The position that these downloads occupy will depend on the order in which you download the apps. This forced those of us who tested many apps on our mobile phones to carefully choose the apps in order, from lowest weight to highest, so as not to waste too much time.
This annoyance has ended with the arrival of this function, which, for the moment, is only available in the mobile versions of the Play Store.
Not yet available on other devices
Today We can only use this new functionality on our mobile devices. In addition, this new integration will be applied to more versions of the app since it will be gradually introduced in future versions of the Play Store.
To be able to download more than one application simultaneously on smart TVs or any other device that is not a mobile phone, We will have to wait.
But until then we'll make do with