When I (re)created Bearing B3, I tried a few things:

• The “new” ABB (Android Bundle) mode.
• Not a big fan but this is the way to go since Play will eventually make AAB mandatory in 2021 or 2022.
• It was a good test and useful, and I shall keep it that way for distrib.
• The new “instant vs installed” modes.
• That was good learning to realize that instant creates some limitations, e.g. can’t bundle analytics stats with it.
• Other than that, it makes the build config a bit more complicated by having 2 variants.
• Overall it doesn’t bring much in terms of visibility. E.g. how many apps are installed vs run as instant?
• FirebaseAnalytics instead of GA.
• Same difference?
• Need to constantly update the library… it’s obsolete again IIRC.

Work suggestions:

• Remove the “instant” variant. Only keep the installed one.
• What about google play? Can I remove the instant version there too?
• ⇒ update the “installed” version first and check if the “instant” can be removed from Play. If it does, then cleanup the “instant” build script + code.
• Check updating of the Firebase library.
• ⇒ That’s enough update needed to create the new installed variant.