New Google Play Apps size reduced by 90%, Faster downloads to users

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Having less space on your smartphone? Worried about downloading an application or updating from the Play store? Well, you don’t have to now! Google has announced that it has found a way to shrink the size of the application size and also the updates. This will make sure that the play apps get downloaded faster, and importantly they do not occupy much space on the smartphone. In this way, you the user can download more apps and without having to worry about the space.

Earlier Google could manage to chunk out47 percent off a download size of an app when compared to the full APK size. This was done by using bsdiff (Binary diff/patch utility) algorithm which showed that they could reduce the delta size up to 50 percent or more when compared to an older algorithm. By applying patches to the binary files, bsdiff produces binary patches up to 50-80 percent smaller than those produced by Xdelta.

Now Google has found a new way to further reduce the size by 65 percent off the size of app revision. Google also said that in some cases it could also go up to 90 percent by using the File-by-File patching technique. Isn’t this interesting? From the late 2015 Google had app downloads of 100MB and if that application is updated once in a month by using the old method it would be more that a gig of data.

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