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Play as you Download expands to more phones as Google simplifies mobile game development
There's a big drive to help developers become more profitable
The 2022 Google for Games Developer Summit is kicking off with the traditional series of announcements about the company's upcoming plans and projects. Like some previous events, the central theme is focused on removing limits by bringing Android games to more devices with more form factors, and in less time.
From the evidence we could gather, Google has been working on adding a lot more gaming features to its Pixel phones. While we've already seen first UI experiments for a game mode, we almost forgot about another intriguing feature that was first rumored a long time ago — an option that lets you start playing games as they're still being downloaded from the Play Store. Google announced during its Google for Games Developer Summit that it would bring just that feature to Android 12.