Google is attempting again to create a budget Android platform for developing markets with Android Go, a program that seems similar to Google’s Android One strategy to create a version of Android for lower powered devices.

Android Go will be focused around building a version of Android for phones with less memory, with the System UI and kernel able to run with as little as 512MB of memory. Apps will be optimized for low bandwidth and memory, with a version of Play Store designed for those markets that will highlight these apps. Google is also launching a new program called “Building for Billions” to help developers create these new optimized apps. We’ve already seen some of these efforts with Google’s YouTube Go beta, which launched…

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