Smart App for Android

Google quietly enables Smart App updates for Android

Google has reportedly enabled its Smart App Update feature for Android devices. Introduced at the Google I/O Conference in June this year, the Smart App updates or Delta updates are meant for pushing only the update and not the entire app all over again.

Usually, the Android app updates would require downloading the entire app package all over again. Now we can imagine the data consumption when about 6-7 app updates hit the Play Store on the same day.With the new Smart App Updates feature dubbed as Delta updates, users no longer will be forced to download entire app packages. Only the update patches for the respective app will be pushed through the same update experience. For instance, Instagram app measures 13.25 MB so with the new delta updates, the Play Store will only push the update package and not the entire 13.25 MB update. Thus the new Smart App Updates feature directly helps conserving precious data limit of users.