{"id":190790,"date":"2016-12-07T08:28:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190790"},"modified":"2016-12-07T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:29:55","slug":"google-reduces-the-size-of-android-app-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/190790-google-reduces-the-size-of-android-app-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Google reduces the size of Android app updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has launched<\/strong><\/a> File-by-File patching, which means Android app updates are, on average, 65% smaller than the full app. In some cases, updates are more than 90% smaller.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe savings, compared to our previous approach, add up to six petabytes of user data saved per day,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get the new version of the app, Google Play sends your device a patch that describes the differences between the old and new versions of the app.\u201d<\/p>\n

The table below provides examples of app updates using File-by-File patching.<\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Application<\/strong><\/td>\nOriginal Size<\/strong><\/td>\nPrevious (BSDiff) Patch Size
\n(% vs original)<\/strong><\/td>\n		File-by-File Patch Size (% vs original)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Farm Heroes Super Saga<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n71.1 MB<\/td>\n13.4 MB (-81%)<\/td>\n8.0 MB (-89%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Maps<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n32.7 MB<\/td>\n17.5 MB (-46%)<\/td>\n9.6 MB (-71%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gmail<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n17.8 MB<\/td>\n7.6 MB (-57%)<\/td>\n7.3 MB (-59%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google TTS<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n18.9 MB<\/td>\n17.2 MB (-9%)<\/td>\n13.1 MB (-31%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kindle<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n52.4 MB<\/td>\n19.1 MB (-64%)<\/td>\n8.4 MB (-84%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Netflix<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n16.2 MB<\/td>\n7.7 MB (-52%)<\/td>\n1.2 MB (-92%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read:\u00a0Android 7.1.1 update released<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Android app updates using File-by-File patching are, on average, 65% smaller than the full app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397],"class_list":["post-190790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190806,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190790\/revisions\/190806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}