Yeah, that's true in most cases. My images actually started out at about 12KB (8-bit PNG) which looked great before uploading them. The conversion "magic" on the server actually made them larger (downloads as 21KB) but with all the ugly dithering.
Re-uploading them as 24-bit PNG (25KB) gave much better results (downloads as 25KB). On Oct 17, 12:00 am, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote: > The market compresses the uploaded images heavily. > Just check the size of the images in your Market-Publish site of your > app. They are quite small and tons of JPEG artifacts show up. Even if > you uploaded PNGs, the images will become JPEGs, heavily compressed > ones. > > On Oct 16, 11:48 am, westmeadboy <westmead...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 14, 10:49 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" > > > <cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Strangely, the market asks for 320x480 screen shots then reduces them > > > in size by a few pixels, and sort of smudging them in the process. It > > > seems like it would have been smarter to ask the developer to deliver > > > the properly sized image so that this pixilation wouldn't be > > > necessary. > > > I haven't noticed that difference in dimensions but my screenshots > > were undergoing some kind of dithering (smudging?) after uploading. > > Then I realised that I had uploaded them as 8-bit. So I resubmitted > > them as 24-bit and the quality is now as it should be. > > > So for some reason, whatever software they use to convert 8-bit to 24- > > bit doesn't give very nice results. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
