Since many years all the users of android wanted to reduce the size of updating apps.And now Google has heard your concerns, and rolled out a new Delta algorithm, bsdiff, which reduces the app update size and lets you save on the data required for updating them.
Google has made changes to the algorithm to its Play Store to ensure the size of updates doesn’t stretch your mobile data to its limits. The new revision has almost halved the data required to update the apps on the Play Store, claims the maker of Android smartphone operating system.
According to a blog post by Anthony Morris, SWE Google Play, for about 98 percent of app updates from the Play Store, only deltas to APK files are downloaded and merged with the existing files to reduce the size of the updates. Now, Google’s new algorithm will further reduce the patches by up to 50 percent. As he explains in the post
According to the post on the official Android Developers Blog, two patches to older versions of Chrome for Android resulted in shrinking a major 22.8MB update down to 12.9MB, and a smaller one from 15.3MB down to just 3.6MB. This means that the download size of your initial installs will now be lower by about 12 percent, and your updates by approximately 65 percent.Your mileage may vary, of course - a few "minor text fixes" (cringe) are going to result in a smaller update than, say, whatever it takes to fix that three footprint bug in Pokémon GO. But in general, developers and end users should be seeing dramatically smaller delta update sizes, and that's good news for anyone on a limited data plan.
So now user, instead of seeing just the app size earlier on Google Play and remaining in the dark about how much data and storage the update would actually consume, you’ll now get to see the precise size of the app you want to install or update. Google developers are being rolled out to all users and should reach you sometime in the coming weeks.
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Google has made changes to the algorithm to its Play Store to ensure the size of updates doesn’t stretch your mobile data to its limits. The new revision has almost halved the data required to update the apps on the Play Store, claims the maker of Android smartphone operating system.
According to a blog post by Anthony Morris, SWE Google Play, for about 98 percent of app updates from the Play Store, only deltas to APK files are downloaded and merged with the existing files to reduce the size of the updates. Now, Google’s new algorithm will further reduce the patches by up to 50 percent. As he explains in the post
“FOR APPROXIMATELY 98 PERCENT OF APP UPDATES FROM THE PLAY STORE, ONLY CHANGES (DELTAS) TO APK FILES ARE DOWNLOADED AND MERGED WITH THE EXISTING FILES, REDUCING THE SIZE OF UPDATES. WE RECENTLY ROLLED OUT A DELTA ALGORITHM, BSDIFF, THAT FURTHER REDUCES PATCHES BY UP TO 50 PERCENT OR MORE COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS ALGORITHM. BSDIFF IS SPECIFICALLY TARGETED TO PRODUCE MORE EFFICIENT DELTAS OF NATIVE LIBRARIES BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SPECIFIC WAYS IN WHICH COMPILED NATIVE CODE CHANGES BETWEEN VERSIONS. TO BE MOST EFFECTIVE, NATIVE LIBRARIES SHOULD BE STORED UNCOMPRESSED (COMPRESSION INTERFERES WITH DELTA ALGORITHMS).”
So now user, instead of seeing just the app size earlier on Google Play and remaining in the dark about how much data and storage the update would actually consume, you’ll now get to see the precise size of the app you want to install or update. Google developers are being rolled out to all users and should reach you sometime in the coming weeks.
Hope you all like the above article, Then feel free to share with your friends. If you still have any queries, suggestion don’t hesitate to leave a comment below.
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