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Google is working on a download manager for the Play Store

Google is working on a download manager for the Play Store

Google has developed some new features for the Play Store. A new feature was recently developed that highlights apps for tablets and cars. This could be part of Google’s Car Ready Mobile Apps program, which was already announced at Google I/O 2024.

Now, the latest APK teardown of the Play Store app v42.9.16-3 reveals several strings related to a download manager feature. While the strings don’t reveal much about the functionality of the download manager, they do suggest that it organizes the apps. It’s often difficult to remember the apps you’ve recently installed, but Download Manager could probably fix the problem.

Here are the strings to the Play Store Download Manager:

AppOpenDownloadManager__enable_play_download_manager
AppOpenDownloadManager__enable_recent_downloads_sorted_by_install_time
AppOpenDownloadManager__enable_recent_downloads_sorted_by_schedule_time

The folks at Android Authority were able to enable the feature and give us a glimpse of what the Play Store download manager would look like if Google ever made the feature available to all users. The Download Manager in the Google Play Store displays a list of apps that are currently being downloaded, as well as any recently installed apps that you haven’t opened yet.

Play Store Download Manager
Image via Android Authority

When you open an app from the download manager, the list disappears. In addition, Google is adding a badge icon in the top right before the 3-dot menu icon. This badge also shows the number of apps and games you have recently downloaded.

However, this version is missing one of the important things that a download manager should allow you to do, such as: B. the ability to pause and resume downloads. As the size of apps and games increases, this would have been a useful feature, especially if they have a limited mobile data plan that updates daily.

What’s worth noting is that the feature is currently not available on the Play Store and Google hasn’t revealed a word about the feature. So it may or may not be released in the future.