{"id":57549,"date":"2012-08-17T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=57549"},"modified":"2012-08-17T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:54:10","slug":"google-play-introduces-smart-app-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/57549-google-play-introduces-smart-app-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Play introduces smart app updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has enabled a new Google Play feature which allows for more efficient updates.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of downloading the whole app (and its update) again, Smart Updates allows for only the incremental differences to be downloaded and added to the existing app.<\/p>\n<p>This delta update service saves data and battery life for Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>The new service will especially benefit large apps and games, where only the extra content or features will be downloaded instead of all the original assets.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2012\/08\/16\/google-flips-the-switch-on-smart-app-updates-in-the-play-store-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Police<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/56985-android-beating-apple-blackberry.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Android beating Apple, BlackBerry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/56857-great-gadgets-to-look-forward-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">Great gadgets to look forward to<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BlackBerry vs Android vs Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/50633-blackberry-vs-android-vs-apple.html\"><strong>BlackBerry vs Android vs Apple<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mobile head honchos reveal which smartphones they use\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/50717-mobile-head-honchos-reveal-which-smartphones-they-use.html\"><strong>Mobile head honchos reveal which smartphones they use<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart updates aim to conserve bandwidth and data for Android devices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":57553,"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":[17],"tags":[397,2612,4036,10100,7979,14573],"class_list":["post-57549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-android-apps","tag-apps","tag-google-play","tag-quicknews","tag-smart-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57549"}],"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\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}