Today at Google I/O, Google announced Smart App Updates for mobile so users only have download changes to an APK, not an entire app over again to update. Smart App Updates are just 1/3 the size of a normal download so they save data and battery life, and are available from Gingerbread and above.
Today it’s also adding movie purchases, TV episode and season purchases, and magazine purchases to Google Play with partners including Disney, ABC, NBC, Sony, Paramount, Hearst, and Conde Nast. Apps for Jelly Bean are also encrypted before being delivered to a user’s device, and develops can now use the free Google Cloud Messaging for delivering notifications.
And to give you an idea of the scope of the Google Play media and app store, Google announced it now has more than 600,000 apps, over 1.5B app installs per moth, and over 20 billion app installs total.
For magazines in Play, Google says “we’ve gone beyond just replicating print.” Now you can browse through magazines, swipe between pages at the bottom and there’s also a pure-text view for uncluttered reading and interactive features that might include video or game insets. Esquire, Wired, Popular Science are all magazine launch titles. Those and other popular magazines will come with 14-day free trials.
App Encryption means that for apps downloaded to Jelly Bean and above, apps are delivered with a device-specific key for more security.
There was also a quick mention of some new and recent developer tools. Now developeres have access to Google Cloud Messaging for delivering notifications to users. Google Cloud is totally free with no quotas, and the developers at I/O clearly loved it giving their massive applause.
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