We have been seeing the trend of Lite apps for Play Store’s popular apps like Facebook Lite, Messenger Lite, Skype Lite, and Twitter Lite. Along with Lite apps, Google introduced its own set of Go Apps for phones with less than 1GB RAM for Android Go (Oreo Edition) phones. It already released YouTube Go, Maps Go, Gboard Go apps.
However, sometimes it is hard to let users know about the existence of Lite apps with Play Store trending most popular apps first. However, Google is now fixing this as some users are now able to see a new message about lite apps. Google is now showing a message about the lite app’s existence of the given app along with the file size of the lite app with view button.
Pressing ‘View’ takes you to the app listing. Obviously, this feature will only be available in markets where lite apps are officially available. Play Store is also listing the Go Apps as alternatives including the Lite apps. This surely is a nice move from Google to promote lite weight apps for users who are on the weak network.