How to Install Maps Go - a lightweight version of Google Maps

Google introduced an operating system Android Go about a week ago. This lightweight version of Android Oreo, which is designed for low-power low-cost devices.

For this operating system have been developed specific applications, characterized by low consumption of system resources and high speed. The first of them - a file manager Files Go. Behind him followed a lite version of Google Go search, and now it is the turn mapping application Maps Go.

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Google Maps Go - routes, traffic, total. transport

Developer: google LLC

Price: Free

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Although the program has already been published Maps Go to the Applications folder, do not rush to download it from Google Play. Most likely, to install an application you do not succeed, because it is intended for a narrow range of devices that use the operating system Android Go.

However, observers Android Police yet Site We found a wayHow to use Maps Go on any device. The fact that a new application developed by Progressive Web App technology, that is, consists of a specially adapted for mobile Web application devices.

To install copy Maps Go this linkAnd then open it in Google Chrome on your mobile device. Then open the main menu and select "Add to Home Screen." As a result, the icon Maps Go appears on your desktop.

In terms of features the app Maps Go is not much different from the full version: you can view maps, search for objects, get directions and share their location with friends. Works faster, lightweight version of the ordinary, but just in case, if you have a fast internet connection.

Maps Go app is useful to all users, which are commonly used alternative mapping programs, such as "2GIS" and Google Maps kept just in case. Or owners of devices with such little memory that every megabyte counts. Now they can easily make space, without losing the ability to use the map service Google.