Google Play introduced a rather important and useful feature in it's latest update, but no one seems to have taken note of it.
Google Play also updates whenever it gets a chance and is notoriously difficult to stop it from sapping your data for doing the same. Not that it's a bad thing, since an up-to-date version of Play is essential for the software end of your device to run smoothly. But the vast majority of these updates bring little noticed changes that really don't mean anything to the end user.
But the last update (Until they release a new one, which seems to happen every few hours) brought a pleasant addition, something I felt could be very useful: When your device has insufficient storage, it tells you exactly how much you need to free up in order to be able to install an app, and also shows the most space-consuming apps and offers you an option to uninstall them on the spot.
For a device with limited or non-expandable storage, this is a problem that users run into very often, especially after using the device for a year or so. Previously, when you had no space to install an app, all you could do was to move your pictures and songs to the cloud or another device, uninstall some apps you do not use any more and hope that did the trick. Now, you know exactly how much you need to free up and get information on the most space consuming apps so you can take the required action. In the screenshot above, my largest app is Facebook. Obviously, I am not going to uninstall Facebook, but a shockingly large size reminded that it was time I cleared Facebook's app data. On doing this, I had the space needed to install the app I wanted.
If you are missing this feature, open Google Play, tap on Settings → Build version and the app should automatically check for updates and download the latest version in the background.
