Maintaining apps across several Android phones and tablets can be difficult, so it’s encouraging that Google looks to be testing a multi-device app sync option on the Play Store. In other words, a Google Play store feature will be allowing users to download apps across multiple Android devices.
Further details on the new Google Play store feature
Keeping track of the applications loaded on each of your Android phones, tablets, or smartwatches may be time-consuming if you use more than one. But, according to a tweet from @AssembleDebug in response to Artem Russakovskii, Google appears to be testing an option to sync applications across your Android devices, even though there are little to no reports of the capability elsewhere at this moment.
The Google Play store feature would be similar to how iOS handles app installations by default, synchronizing them across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and, as a result, putting your favorite applications at your fingertips regardless of whatever device you are presently using. According to this source, there is a new “Sync applications to devices” area beneath the “Manage apps and devices” sub-menu within the Google Play Store settings. Touching displays a selection of linked devices from which you may choose or deselect app sync.
This would most likely supplement the existing option to install apps from the Play Store from one device to another when they are linked to your account. Originally restricted to smartwatches, Android TV devices, and tablets, this has stealthily spread to smartphones in recent weeks.
The Google Play store feature would be a really handy one to be able to easily sync apps purchased or downloaded from the Play Store to all of your Android devices at the same time. Eliminating the present necessity to do so manually is something we heartily support, as it would make switching to a different phone or tablet that much easier daily.
This would also mimic the initial setup process where your Android phone will pull any apps from another smartphone. Nevertheless, in that scenario, it is only available at the moment of setup and cannot be done after the fact. If you skip this first device setup phase, you will need to go to the Play Store and manually select which apps to install.
If you have a variety of Android phones, tablets, smartwatches, and smart TV devices, this might allow you to move between them without having to go to the Play Store to achieve feature parity.
