Difference between apk (.apk) and app bundle (.aab)

App Bundles are a publishing format, whereas APK (Android application PacKage) is the packaging format which eventually will be installed on device.
App Bundles use bundletool to create a set of APK. (.apks) This can be extracted and the base and configuration splits as well as potential dynamic feature modules can be deployed to a device.
The dependencies can look something like this:


The contents of an App Bundle look kind of like this:




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