Thanks for the responses, Dianne, what do you mean by forward-locked?
- Dan On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > If your app is forward locked, it can take significantly more space, even > after the install is done (unfortunately all of the resources currently have > to be installed twice). > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> The package installer looks to take up a good amount of space when >> installing applications. We've published a very large game (ProjectINF - >> 6mb). And it looks to be taking up a good amount of space during the >> install process, to the point that we have a lot of users emailing us with >> complaints/requests to "fix it". >> >> From what we've seen, it looks to take about 22mb of free space to install >> a 6mb apk. While I can imagine taking double or so for unpacking and temp >> locations, almost 4x the size seems a bit high. After an install with 22mb >> free, the device has 16mb free (which makes perfect sense). >> >> Users also seem to be getting errors on the market when trying to install >> with less than that amount of space (with no real clear error message, just >> "Install Failed". >> >> I doubt theres anything we can do on our side (besides shrinking our app >> all around), but figured I'd ask :) >> >> - Dan >> >> >> > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > 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. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
