Google bumps max Android APK file size to 100MB

Inside the Google app for your Android smartphone or tablet you’ll find the ability to play music, open your Gmail app, turn up your device’s volume, turn on your device’s flashlight feature, turn off (or on) airplane mode, turn on (or off) Bluetooth, or dim your device’s screen. Moving up from 50MB, the maximum size of an APK is now 100MB. The change is meant to support richer apps and more graphics-intensive games. I’m looking at you Leo’s Fortune. That’s up from the old limit of 50MB and will allow developers to push out bigger app packages without a warning to the user, which will now only appear when apps are over the 100MB quota.

Mobile data connectivity: Users around the world have varying mobile data connectivity speeds.

App performance: Mobile devices have limited RAM and storage space.

Doubling the file size limitation will certainly allow for more complex mobile games to be released on the Play Store, but even with the extra 4GB from expansion files, Play Store games are still incredibly small compared to most modern non-mobile games. I know plenty of people who can only install a few apps on their phone before they have to uninstall some stuff for every new app they want to install. They also take longer to install and use more system resources.

This is just a minor update since most of the world has access to Wi-Fi at some point in time.