When you download an app from Google Play sometimes its not clear about how much space it will actually take. Sometimes a very small app will require a 2 GB expansion file and other times the app updates are quite large. Google is going to address this issue and keep app file sizes in check.
Google is developing a new algorithm further compresses the size of apps and updates by a considerable amount. Google has called that “bsdiff” and it will reduce a download by 50% to even 75%. That, of course, depends on how much new data and code is included in the patch but it’s still a substantial amount of savings.
This new coding change will also be applicable to expansion files and Google plans on compressing them an additional 12% to 65% on average.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
