Google has earned a reputation for removing popular Android features, while often not adequately replacing them, and here's five that met the chopping block.

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Google is killing off Instant Apps after 8 years. The feature will go away in December 2025, and the company is being very quiet about the change. The move has been confirmed via Android Studio, ...

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Google is set to discontinue Android Instant Apps by the end of 2025. They were first introduced in 2016 and made available to users in early 2017. Android Instant Apps let users try out parts of an ...

Apps used to be the measure of a mobile platform’s worth, with Apple and Google dueling over who could list the most items in their respective stores. Today, the numbers don’t matter as much—there are ...

Android Instant Apps will be discontinued by Google in December 2025. The feature required developers to create slimmed-down versions of their apps with a maximum ...