This I think is Google's Android based solution challenging the all encompassing messaging apps(Wechat,kik) and Chrome Apps(Flipkart Lite). Honestly I think the

This I think is Google's Android based solution challenging the all encompassing messaging apps(Wechat,kik) and Chrome Apps(Flipkart Lite). Honestly I think the android ecosystem is fragmented enough .Enabling more modularized formats would (in my opinion) make it worse. I wonder if this would affect the number of installs and how this would affect popularity on the app store. I have been an android developer for 3 years.And right now I question myself that why would you need android apps in itself if you could have a well developed browser based ecosystem(permissions/push notifications and all that jazz) ,why would you need Android apps. Currently I view Android apps as the desktop apps equivalent in other systems. PS:I agree with offline apps like readers/games etc.Online apps whose complete dependence is on APIs.I cannot understand the need for that.