[android-components](../../index.md) / [mozilla.components.feature.downloads](../index.md) / [DownloadsFeature](index.md) / [start](./start.md)

# start

`fun start(): `[`Unit`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-unit/index.html) [(source)](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/blob/master/components/feature/downloads/src/main/java/mozilla/components/feature/downloads/DownloadsFeature.kt#L87)

Overrides [LifecycleAwareFeature.start](../../mozilla.components.support.base.feature/-lifecycle-aware-feature/start.md)

Starts observing downloads on the selected session and sends them to the [DownloadManager](../../mozilla.components.feature.downloads.manager/-download-manager/index.md)
to be processed.

