August 17, 2012 By

Google enables Smart App Updates – less data consumption all round

App updates are quicker to download and use less data

Google announced Smart App Updates at this year’s I/O conference and now seems to have enabled the new Play Store feature. This means that less data is consumed when app updates are downloaded, which needless to say is good for everyone involved.

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Artem from Android Police has explained how Smart App Updates work and also posted a couple of videos of the updates in action:

Normally, when an update to an application comes out, the Play Store downloads it in full, which with large apps and slow connections can get quite painful (think 50MB+ sizes). Smart app updates, announced at an I/O session in June, was the solution. When enabled, only the incremental difference (a.k.a. the delta) between the old and new apks would be sent over the wire, thereby saving huge amounts of data for both Google and Play Store users.

 

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Comments

  1. Mike Paterson says:
    August 18, 2012 at 7:44 am

    Hallelujah……. my data download will love me for this.

    Data connections and downloads are a pet hate of mine Chris, where I have often been quite outspoken in my views of mobile data connections (or often the lake of it) and the ludicrous prices for data services.
    At least this should help in the pricing bracket.

    Mike