Talk:Fall Out Boy Update/@comment-33511355-20180208141431/@comment-31458611-20180208225454

@ Mehdinike,  Techiesportsfan:

Maybe you should know that downloading the APK from a reputable source is perfectly sound, safe and legit. The stuff you download from either Play Store or, say, APK Pure, is not the game itself, it's only a loader or installer of the game (about 60 MB).

Next to it, the game code itself is humongous, about 1.5 GB (which grows on your device to at least 2.7 GB in decompressed/ executable form), and comes from GL's servers, not Google's.

The reason GL wants the Play Store to roll out the installer gradually over a few days is to smooth out the peaks of demand on their servers as much as possible; otherwise, their (already precarious) servers would succumb to the flood of too many players downloading gigabytes at once.

PS: "APK" is an Android term that stands for Application Package. When installing some app thru the Play Store, you effectively download an APK, but don't see it because a service embedded in your Android device automates the whole installation process.