Out of the box, most custom ROMs such as AOSP/Cyanogenmod does not come load with pre-installed Google apps, and you need to flash them separately as a package using the custom recovery. So the only option left for these users is to install a Custom ROM to have a taste of the latest Android.
When you flash a stock custom ROM, in this case an Android 6.0 Marshmallow ROM, you need to flash Google Apps as well. As the name says, Gapps are all applications made by Google designed for your Android. Only Nexus users are the one who get it first, and rest of the users, Samsung, Sony, HTC, LG, Motorola and many more has to wait for the carriers as well as manufacturers to release the official updates but due to some legal issues it takes time, and that is the reason you’re not getting latest Android updates as soon as they are released.Īndroid community and developers make their builds of Custom ROMs based on Android Marshmallow. Download Android 6.0 Marshmallow Gapps ZIP (Google Apps) Google Apps, often called simply Gapps are an important part of every Android phone. Whenever a newer version of Android is released, most Android users prefer to get it asap.
Android 6.0 Marshmallow was officially released in Oct 2015 with the Google’s latest flagship devices Nexus 6P and Nexus 5x bringing some improvement to Android 5.0 Lollipop material design and System UI and focusing on battery life.
