Google Reportedly Stops Generating Fat APKs, Making Sideloading Android Apps More Tedious

Google introduced the Android App Bundle at the I/O 2018 event, enabling developers to build their apps as bundles. Following this change, Google Play Store only downloaded the specific portions it needed during app installation. However, this only applied to apps downloaded via the store, with sideloading apps still allowing fat APKs. A recent claim suggests that thi…