"Delta" smart updates now working in Google Play
0. phoneArena posted on 16 Aug 2012, 16:30
One of the smaller announcements from Google I/O this year was that Google was going to start allowing apps to be smarter about how they push updates through the Play Store. So far, if you were updating an app, you'd have to download the entire...
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6. ardent1 posted on 16 Aug 2012, 23:16 1 3
Apple iOS has delta updates for a file. It's a blessing saving time and bandwidth.
2. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 16 Aug 2012, 17:27 0 0
"We noticed a couple days ago that the new "delta" smart app updates had been enabled when updating The Dark Knight Rises, which would have been a 1.8GB download under the old system. However, this time around the update was just 20MB or so."
WOW now this is good news!
3. skymitch89 posted on 16 Aug 2012, 18:42 1 0
Nice to hear, and I'll try it out with Google Maps and IMDB in a bit. I hope that this feature is available for all/most Android devices and not just 4.0 and above.
7. cyborg009 posted on 16 Aug 2012, 23:45 0 0
I remember from Google IO they had said it would be supported for devices with 2.3 and above
4. taz89 posted on 16 Aug 2012, 18:54 0 0
Already seen these delta updates.. Examples some apps which are 8mb etc only download like 1mb and then start installing... Great feature and more than just a little bump into say...
