Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube Will Be Available Offline

There ’s nothing more frustrating than cueing up a set of Google Maps directions to your destination only to misplace table service and have them evaporate while you ’re in passage . Now Google Maps , websites , and even YouTube will work with no cyberspace connexion on your Android phone .

Google announced the serial of lighter apps for the audience it calls “ the next billion”—people in explicate region where earpiece are also personal computers . The feature will be rolling out by and by this twelvemonth .

The offline support was demoed onstage attoday ’s I / O conference . After pulling up directions in Maps , the phone is put into airplane mode — commonly the buss of death for any single-valued function app . But look ! you could still stab around the map ’s graphics as well as see the destination ’s address , phone act , open hour , and so on — they’re all still there and can be expanded as needed . Turn - by - routine directions are also supported offline . Voice directions work , too !

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A like flowing approach to offline financial support is used for YouTube and websites on Chrome . YouTube ’s feature is a simple archiving tool which tolerate a exploiter to save a video for offline take in for up to two days . Even more intriguing is something called a internet Quality Estimator for Chrome which take apart the internet connectedness to optimise both the search results and any webpages you press , load page quicker and prioritizing school text and info over data - intensive images .

The offline support will obviously profit the millions of substance abuser inemerging marketswhere serve is scratchy or nonexistent without a wifi connection . But these are also incredibly useful tools for navigating cities , where subways , construction , hills , and burrow interrupt our power to keep tabs on where we are and where we ’re going .

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