Estimates the size of Google Play patches and the new gzipped APK.
From two APKs it estimates the size of the new patches as well as the size of the gzipped version of the new APK, which would be used in cases where the patches are unexpectedly large, unavailable, or unsuitable. Google Play uses multiple techniques to generate patches and generally picks the best match for the device. The best match is usually, but not always, the smallest patch file produced. The numbers that this script produces are ESTIMATES that can be used to characterize the impact of arbitrary changes to APKs. There is NO GUARANTEE that this tool produces the same patches or patch sizes that Google Play generates, stores or transmits, and the actual implementation within Google Play may change at any time, without notice.
This is not an official Google product
The script uses Python 2.7.X, bsdiff and Java (you may need to install them in your system)
For the file-by-file estimation we use a jar (at /lib/file-by-file-tools.jar) generated from: https://github.com/andrewhayden/archive-patcher
$ python apk_patch_size_estimator.py --old-file old.apk --new-file new.apk None GZIP BROTLI
None 6.54MB 6.54MB 6.54MB
BSDIFF 6.54MB 2.12MB 2.12MB
File-By-File 6.54MB 2.12MB 2.12MB
Please visit https://github.com/google/archive-patcher for further details.
The script uses bsdiff, gzip, brotli, head, tail, bunzip2 and java binaries, bsdiff and brotli are the only ones not installed by defult in a unix based OS.
Install bsdiff:
sudo apt-get install bsdiff brotliInstall bsdiff using Homebrew:
brew install bsdiff brotliThe easiest way to run the script in Windows is by using Cygwin, make sure you install python and bsdiff using Cygwin's installer/setup.
pip install mockpython -m unittest discover tests/Julian Toledo
Andrew Hayden
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