Cool. Thanks guys!
On Apr 15, 1:02 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Correct. The numbers are intended to tell you how much space the app is
> using in /data, thus how much space you would make available for other
> things if you removed that data. The code for the built-in applications is
> in /system, so only their data files are included in those numbers.
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:29 AM, deepdr...@googlemail.com <
>
>
>
> deepdr...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, internal, inbuilt apps count zero for the app size
> > itself. Just try and clear i.e. all browser data and it shows up as 0
> > byte!
> > The 4k I think is for some data stored by the calculator like the last
> > result to be re-shown on application start.
>
> > --
>
> >http://www.deepdroid.com
>
> > On Apr 15, 4:12 pm, droozen <droozenr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So I wrote my own calculator app because I wanted to have some
> > > different functionality than the calculator that comes with the phone.
> > > Now, I notice the calculator that came with the phone, when looking
> > > through the Manage Applications, only shows as being 4kb in size. My
> > > calculator ends up being 104kb after all is said and done.
>
> > > Anyone have an idea why the huge difference in size? I mean, I know I
> > > built my calculator to do more than the built in one, but I didn't
> > > think it was doing 25 times more stuff than the built in one! I can't
> > > even make an empty Word document that small (4kb). A Notepad document
> > > with 10 characters takes up 4kb on disk.
>
> > > I'm not complaining, just curious. Is the built in calculator app that
> > > shows up in Manage Applications just a shortcut, or whatever, into the
> > > OS, and the functionality actually resides there?
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
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