Android 12: Game Dashboard, playing by downloading, Game Development Kit, Google puts the package on video games

The game is serious!With Android 12, Google will go further to make life easier for players and players on smartphones.

The game on smartphone has developed enormously in recent years.We now have smartphones dedicated to video games, with special interfaces at each manufacturer and accessories to transform our phones into a real portable console.

Google is well aware of all this, and will offer big news around video games for Android 12.

A dashboard game dedicated to video games

The novelty that will concern us the most is undoubtedly the arrival of a "game dashboard" on Android 12.This is simply the interface already offered by several manufacturers on their smartphones for video games.

Here, Google wants to make it a standard to integrate for game developers.

This dashboard game will allow screenshots or record the video of a part easily.It will also be a question of cutting notifications during your games and optimizing smartphone performance.

Android Game Development Kit: a real kit for game creators

Google has also unveiled AGDK, or Android Game Development Kit.This is a series of tools allowing game creators to develop more easily on Android.

It is with this kit that developers can easily integrate into the Android 12 Game Dashboard.They will above all be able to test their games with different performance profiles and access new C/C ++ libraries.

We should therefore see more efficient and more ambitious games arriving on Android, if Google reaches its goal.

Play without finishing downloading your games

Last big novelty offered by Google for Android 12: the possibility of launching a game before the download end.This is a function that players already know of PlayStation or Xbox, but also on PC with Blizzard.

Very concretely, developers can indicate a set of data necessary for the game: sound, textures and gameplay which are necessary at the first level for example.It is this portion that players will download first to be able to launch the game.

As a background, the Google Play Store continues to download the full version of the game while you are testing the first level.

According to Google, a 400 MB game could only take a few seconds before being able to be launched, against several minutes.

A function reserved for Android 12

The "play as you download" function will only be available on Android 12.It uses the new Android 12 file management system.

In addition, games must use Android App Bundle, the new application format that must kill APK.

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