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Android Instant Apps are special kind of native mobile apps that can be run instantly on Android device, without prior installation, just by clicking on a web link - or the Try Now button in the Play Store. Use this tag for questions about Android Instant Apps development, debugging and deployment. Consider adding [android] tag as well.

Android Instant Apps were presented during Google I/O 2016 as a way of launching native Android applications without requiring a user to install them. Instant Apps are launched by simply clicking on a web link.

Resources

Android Instant Apps introduction

Frequently Asked Questions

Preparing your app

Code samples

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Is it possible to discover and run third-party Android Instant Apps on an emulated device?

I'm currently trying to learn about Android instant apps. Since I don't own any real devices that support them, I'm using the emulator (from Android Studio 3.0 Canary 9). I can successfully run "toy" instant apps (like this) on my emulated Nexus 5x…
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How to expose component from installed app to be visible to instant app?

From the developer document of Instant Apps Installed apps can make themselves available to interact with instant through explicit intents. And later, it is mentioned that instant apps cannot Discover the list of installed apps on the device,…
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Why use the new Android feature plugin over the library plugin?

Android recently came out with a new com.android.feature plugin to be used to split up applications into features for the new Instant apps. It seems to be an architecture they are recommending in general, not just for features you are splitting up…
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Navigation component with instant/(dynamic-)feature modules

I'm trying to implement the new navigation component with dynamic features So the structure looks like this: app (has dynamic dynamicFeatures = [] included in gradle) features login home etc. library -> globalNav I've been reading a lot with no…
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Google Play Console error - Non-upgradable to installed app

I developed an instant app apk basing on google tutorials and samples. When I'm trying to start rollout to production, I see one error: Non-upgradable to installed app PROBLEM Some users of this Instant App APKs will not be eligible for any of the…
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Google Instant App - How to be go about automating with Appium

We understand that the app needs to be launched by a browser and then a app container comes up with the cached app. However, we don't know how to move the handle from the browser the app container. Any thoughts?
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Android Instant App : Default Activity not found

This seems to be manifest merging error. I'm trying to port existing code to instant app module. What I've tried is : Changed main app module to baseFeatureModule. Created a new module completeApp. Emptied completeAppModule's Manifest : added…
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Android Studio 3 difference between library module and feature module

In Android Studio 3 there are at least two new module types. First is Instant app module and the second one is feature module. With Instant App module it's quite obvious but feature module from my perspective is the same as the library module. So…
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How to create Android instant app in React Native?

It seems like there isn't any examples, tutorials or guides on the internet for creating Android instant app with react native. I have an existing react native app and I want to create an Android instant app. The existing app that was created in…
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Multi Feature Instant Apps can't be proguarded?

By using Android Studio 3.0 Beta 5, using the default Project (Empty Activity) with Instant Apps on. To turn on Proguard, I just set all the Build.Gradle (app, base and feature) with debug { minifyEnabled true proguardFiles…
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Digital Assets Link link to my website

I have created an instant app. I uploaded it to my Google Console, and I got this error. The www.kochchy.cz website has not been linked to your application through the Digital Assets Link protocol. Link the application site with Digital Assets…
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Applying the plugin 'kotlin-android' in an Instant App results in "null cannot be cast to non-null type com.android.build.gradleBasePlugin"

I've been trying to combine the newly publicly released Android Instant Apps with the Kotlin programming language. After creating my project using the following (standard?) setup, I get an Error with the message "null cannot be cast to non-null type…
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How to make my firebase dynamic link redirect to my website on desktop and to my instant app on mobile

I have an instant app and a Firebase dynamic link which redirects to this instant app. But when I click the dynamic link on a computer, the link leads to a non existant page of my website. According to Google doc :…
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Link is not opened as instant app in some devices

I had published my instant app in play store. when i click the link from gmail it opens as instant app in some devices (Samsung s6 note ,moto g4 plus) In some devices its not working ,but those devices has Settings->Google->Instant Apps option. but…
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Instant app won't start directly, shows a screen first

I have successfully published a (very simple) Instant App linked to my personal website. When I click on my website's link, I was expecting the app to start directly, but instead, I first see a screen with 2 buttons: "Open app" and "Open in…
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