ApkDiffPatch
a C++ library and command-line tools for Zip(Jar,Apk) file Diff & Patch; create minimal delta/differential; support Jar sign(Apk v1 sign) & Apk v2 sign & Apk v3 sign .
You can use this library (and Android NDK) to delta update your Apk.
( not support zip64, and only support decode Deflated code; dependent libraries HDiffPatch, zlib, lzma. )
[中文说明]
Releases/Binaries
Download from last release : Command line app for Windows , Linux , MacOS; and .so .java for Android.
usage:
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ZipDiff(oldZip,newZip,out diffData)
release the diffData for update oldZip; -
ZipPatch(oldZip,diffData,out newZip)
ok , got the newZip;
ZipPatch() requires 4*(decompress stream memory) +ref old decompressmemory + O(1), alsoref old decompresscan use temp disk file without memory;
ZipPatch() support multi-thread parallel compress mode when writing zip file, which requires more and more memory! (NOTE: patch by multi-thread need ApkNormalized zip files) -
NOTE:
if your need newZip(patch result) file byte by byte equal,Released newZip:= ApkNormalized(newZip) before run ZipDiff, AND You should not modify the zlib version (unless it is certified compatible);
if your apk(or jar) file used Jar sign(Apk v1 sign), is same as zip file;
if your apk used Apk v2 sign(or Apk v3 sign),Released newZip:= AndroidSDK#apksigner(ApkNormalized(AndroidSDK#apksigner(newZip))) before ZipDiff; -
NOTE:
ApkDiffPath can't be used in the Android app store, because it requires re-signing apk;
sfpatcher like archive-patcher, is designed for Android app store, but patch is much faster than archive-patcher.
Why ApkDiffPatch
Why need ApkDiffPatch or Google Play's archive-patcher after having BsDiff or HDiffPatch?
ApkDiffPatch : v1.0
archive-patcher: v1.0 ( test by https://github.com/googlesamples/apk-patch-size-estimator )
BsDiff : v4.3
HDiffPatch : v2.2.6
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BsDiff HDiffPatch archive-patcher ApkDiffPatch
oldVersion newVersion newSize (bzip2) (+zlib) (+gzip) (+zlib) (+lzma)
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chrome-63-0-3239-111.apk chrome-64-0-3282-123.apk 43879588 32916357 32621974 18776996 15995242 13896562
chrome-64-0-3282-123.apk chrome-64-0-3282-137.apk 43879588 28895294 28538751 1357320 1341073 1149331
chrome-64-0-3282-137.apk chrome-65-0-3325-109.apk 43592997 31771385 31540550 16427116 14415021 12356765
google-maps-9-70-0.apk google-maps-9-71-0.apk 50568872 37992141 37531799 17293163 14562607 11430622
google-maps-9-71-0.apk google-maps-9-72-0.apk 54342938 41897706 41475595 21301751 18752320 14066134
weixin660android1200.apk weixin661android1220.apk 61301316 17565557 17372003 1927833 1794219 1659286
weixin661android1220.apk weixin662android1240.apk 63595334 38349926 38025483 22100454 18392769 15556315
weixin662android1240.apk weixin663android1260.apk 63595326 11614415 11531258 1044656 937920 940060
weixin663android1260.apk weixin665android1280.apk 63669882 21423459 21176790 9621032 9003472 7392063
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Average Compression 100.0% 56.3% 55.8% 23.5% 20.4% 16.8%
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