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 were a unique take on using apps, but they never caught on. It let users launch parts of apps without having to install them. It never saw broad development, and now Google is ...

Android Studio’s Otter update will retire Instant Apps The Otter Feature Drop is the next major update to Android Studio, particularly with the version number 2025.1.2 and codenamed Narwhal.

Google is shutting down an Android feature that let users quickly download and use a temporary "mini" version of an app, instead of installing the full app. Instant Apps were not popular with ...

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 ...