Fortunately for everyone, especially for Nigerians, It is as if your worries and concerns have been heard by Google.. A new algorithm from Google now makes it possible by reducing updates size, patches, by 50%..so that means if you spend 160mb to update marvel champions, now you can save 80mb or less.
According to SWE Google play, Anthony Morris, he explains: "For approximately 98% of app updates from play store, only changes to ask files are downloaded and merged with existing files, reducing the size of updates. We recently rolled out a delta algorithm, bsdiff, that further reduces patches by up to 50% or more compared to the previous algorithm. Bsdiff is specifically taargeted to produce more efficient deltas of native libraries by taking advantage of the specific ways in which compiled native code changes between versions. To be most effective, native libraries should be stored uncompressed (compression interferes with delta algorithm "
Concerning ask expansion files, Morris further explains: "Apk expansion files allow you to include additional large files up to 2gb in size (e.g. High resolution graphics or media files) with your app, which is especially popular with games. We have recently expanded our delta and compression algorithms to apply to these Apk expansion files in addition to apks, reducing the download size of initial installs by 12% and updates by 65% on average"
I see that as a breakthrough..In addition, another marvelous invention to play store includes you seeing the ACTUAL download size of apps when UPDATING. So you no longer need to panic about how much space and data the update will consume .
NOTE : this changes made on Google play will be rolled out gradually..so if you don't observe that now, then be patient..in few weeks, you will get yours...enjoy!
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