Google introduces slimline “Go” versions of some of its apps

Google appear its new Go-branded apps alongside account of the Android Oreo (Go edition) bygone — acquisition out what they're about here.

Google launched Android Go yesterday, its new arrangement abreast for accessories in arising markets. This comprises a adaptation of Android Oreo optimized for low-tier hardware, a revamped Play Store, and committed apps — several of which Google has already discussed.

These apps are advised for accessories with lower accumulator and RAM than your archetypal flagship, and are congenital to accomplish bigger use of adaptable data. Though Google appear some of these alongside the new software, it’s not the alone ambassador of such products: we’ve already apparent apps from added brands in this vein, and Google afresh created a set of guidelines for developing apps aimed at arising markets, acceptation we’re acceptable to see abounding added pop up in time.

The specific Google-developed apps we apperceive to accept been associated with Android Go so far are:

YouTube Go is the alone Go app that we were ahead accustomed with. This is a slimline adaptation of YouTube that lets you allotment videos via Bluetooth and download them for offline viewing. Meanwhile, Files Go is cast new book administrator app that provides “smart recommendations” on how to free-up accumulator space, as able-bodied as absolution users alteration files amid accessories wirelessly after arresting adaptable data. Even added exciting, this app is accessible already and can be downloaded at the basal of the page.

Chrome and Gboard, on the added hand, don’t accept new versions but are on the account acknowledgment to their corresponding abstracts extenuative functionality and multi-language options. As for the Google Play Store, this will attending hardly altered on Android Go accessories to acclaim apps for acceptable for such handsets.  

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Rounding things off, Google Abettor Go is a adaptation of abettor that can, for the aboriginal time, assignment on accessories with 1 GB of RAM, and Google Go is a active adaptation of Google Search Lite alien beforehand this year. The actual apps on the list, Google Maps Go and Gmail Go, haven’t been discussed yet. 

• Files Go
• Gmail Go
• Google Go
• YouTube Go
• Google Maps Go
• Google Abettor Go
• Google Play
• Gboard
• Chrome