Google's “digital wallet” app, Wallet, is receiving support for the proprietary format that Apple uses in its proposal Apple Wallet. Specifically, boarding passes, tickets and other documents that are available in .pkpass for apple company software, They can be opened directly on an Android mobile with Google Wallet without the need for other applications
You just have to download the file in that format and the application will detect it and add it to your document catalog. However, as pointed out in 9to5googlenot all documents seem to work, since there are websites where the download is done through a preflight searching for safari browser, and not finding it on an Android smartphone, it gives an error.
It is to be expected that these services where verifications are carried out that it is an iPhone to offer the .pkpass will begin to withdraw them according to the support for pkpass in Google Wallet becomes popular.
Other alternatives such as Samsung Wallet do not yet support this format, but what is clear is that any company that wants a real alternative to physical wallets will have to offer compatibility with as many formats as possible.
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Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love to tear apart everything that passes through my hands, especially the latest hardware that we receive here for reviews. In my free time I tinker with 3D printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything, here you have me.
