[android-developers] Re: Opening a gzipped raw resource file

2010-01-29 Thread Terry Stone
Mark: Regarding the compression of the APK, what is it comparable to in compression ratio: WinZip? gzip, etc? It would seem to me that it still might make sense to uncompress it and place it on the sdcard for speed since having to query, for example a compressed database file would take lots of

[android-developers] Re: What About Oversize Apps?

2010-01-27 Thread Terry Stone
On Jan 27, 9:58 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: You may wish to consider downloading your images on first run and storing them on the SD card. Does anyone have a good working example of how to do that? It seems that this is a recurring issue here. -- You received this message

[android-developers] Re: Guide Me Right Way

2010-01-27 Thread Terry Stone
The CommonsWare books read perfectly fine on the Droid. I keep a copy there so I can read on flights, etc. On Jan 27, 10:21 am, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: I'd hold off on a Kindle until you check out the Android readers coming out. I am sure apple will be releasing their table