Android Instant Apps now tied with “Try Now” tag on Play Store

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By Jules Wang

Published Oct 20, 2017

Tenants have appeared in a new category set up on the Google Play Store that look to push Android Instant Apps forward with a quick demo.

We first learned about Android Instant Apps back when Android 7.0 Nougat was still just Android N at Google I/O. Testing has been ongoing and progress has been slow — we have yet to arrive at the utopia of not having to download an app to get a slice of an app interface to do what we need.

But the hope is that we finally have enough apps to have to showcase them and what they can do in what’s essentially an extended interactive advertisement. The Google Play Store has a new “Apps to Try Now” section and, presumably, if your phone supports running instant apps, you’ll see a “try now” button on their listings.

So far, there are only eight apps in the category: [one_half]