Android Go vs Android Regular Apps : How are they different?

Roma Kapadiya
Tech News and Daily Updates
1 min readJan 30, 2019

Google launched the Android Go in order to target the common users. The aim was to expand the app market of Android in the developing nations. The Android Go is a lighter version of the Android Operating System that was released by Google. It is released with the aim to run the OS successfully on entry-level phones. Google Go is simple and lighter, which makes it much easier to install. The most important part is that the app size.

The Gmail Go has a file size of about 24.8 MB. The regular Gmail app takes 77MB of RAM. The facility of real-time location sharing is one of the most common features shared by both the apps. Though Google Go Maps does not offer the benefit of navigation. The Go version consumes 3.5 MB compared to the 183 MB for regular Google Maps. Google has brought a light variant of the YouTube which is known as YouTube Go. To know more about this, read the article here.

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Roma Kapadiya
Tech News and Daily Updates

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