Thursday, April 25, 2024

Google further shrinks the size of your Android app updates

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If theres a regular bane in Android phone owners existence, its the never-ending stream of app updates. Even though theyre smaller than full downloads, they still chew up a lot of data — just ask anyone who has sucked down hundreds of megabytes updating a new phone. Googles engineers have a better solution, though.

Theyre introducing a new approach to app updates that promises to radically shrink the size of updates with file-by-file patching. The resulting patches tend to b…
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