Yeah, I don’t think this will affect AOSP, but I do imagine that Google will encourage use of AAB going forward and that means less apps might end up getting packaged using APK leading to a more closed ecosystem. Unfortunately, some of the popular communication apps like Slack, Discord, or Signal are only available from vendors and if you rely on these apps you’ll be stuck using Play store.
Yeah, I don’t think this will affect AOSP, but I do imagine that Google will encourage use of AAB going forward and that means less apps might end up getting packaged using APK leading to a more closed ecosystem. Unfortunately, some of the popular communication apps like Slack, Discord, or Signal are only available from vendors and if you rely on these apps you’ll be stuck using Play store.
I think apps like SAI could still work, they currently do XAPK app bundles well already.