Thank you for the information. On Jul 28, 8:57 am, Joseph Earl <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly, Android Market does not currently have provisions for large > applications. > If you need large data, you'll have to store it on your own web-server > and download it to the SD card on first run (via HTTP or possibly > FTP). Remember this isn't secure, any user or app will be able to get > at your files. > > There are no installation scripts like Windows Mobile, e.g. you can't > tell the installer to send only SOME files to the SD card. > > There is an example on how to accomplish this. See: > 1)http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > 2)http://stackoverflow.com/questions/973127/android-application-requiri... > > However it's not ideal: > 1) Files are not copy protected in any way. This is fine for some > people, for others (like major game studios) it's not. > 2) User effectively has to go through another download screen. They > may well be tempted to just not bother, especially if it takes a > while. > 3) Developer has to provide his or her own web-server. While this > might be fine if your app isn't that popular/isn't too large, > expecting developers to carry the burden of hosting 100MBs of files > and providing the bandwidth for possibly hundreds of thousands of > users all while continuing to pay Google the same share for sales is > in my view not particularly fair on developers. > > Still, the market is improving and hopefully it will approach the > level of quality available in *other* app stores within a year or two. > > On Jul 28, 4:31 pm, jb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm just about done with development and emulator testing and I'm > > unclear how to proceed with getting my application ready for actual > > device testing and them publishing. > > > Here's my main concern: I have around 600 images that I will need to > > have loaded (on initial installation) onto an sd card. What is the > > best way to do this? HTTP? Is there an automated process? Is this > > handled by an installation script. > > > Are there documents that cover this type of scenario? > > > When it comes time for actual publishing the application, again, how > > will I handle loading the images onto the sd card during the initial > > installation? > > > Thanks, > > > jb > >
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