ELi5: When doing a software update on my Android phone it reboots and says it’s optimizing and or initializing apps. What is it actually doing?

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So Im in IT and can only rationalize the massive time (sometimes longer than the update itself) it takes to do this task before my phone is utilized it has something to do with indexing. Sort of like NTFS? But then again even computer drivers do not take as long to install and reboot as these phone updates take.
Can someone please explain what Android is doing when optimising and or initializing apps?

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Android caches a LOT of stuff in databases. It’s purging and re-populating those databases.

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