Hi Justin, Thanks for your suggestions. We are definitely trying to keep the application size as small as possible, however our application would come with a large amount of media data. We are trying to write an app which will show the users instructional photos/videos and have no choice but to pack it separately from the app. Also, one of the most important concerns is to have a working application even when NO internet connection is available, which requires preloading the phone with the required data on sd card. Our biggest concern in this case is how to make the installation process as easy as possible. We were originally thinking of letting a user to download a zip file containing the .apk + photo/video data, but struggling how to walk the user through the installation process, so it is not very confusing.
Thanks again for helping out ! Tim On Oct 23, 12:54 pm, "Justin (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How large is your APK? In general, try to keep application files > around 1MB at most, and 2MB is really huge. There is *limited* > internal storage. If you have data files that are not going to be used > all the time, have your application download them the first time > they're needed rather than including them in the APK and if they're > not sensitive data, cache them on the SD card. Applications can not be > installed on the SD card, any data you want to write there, you'll > need to do yourself. > > Remember, mobile networks are slow, and how many of your users with > want to wait for a 10MB application to download? > > Cheers, > Justin > Android Team @ Google > > On Oct 23, 9:30 am,Timmah<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > Looking for some recommendations on how to handle large .apk files on > > Android: > > > Trying to write an application that will come with large amounts of > > data and due to limitations on RAM, struggling finding a solution on > > how to avoid INSUFFICIENT MEMORY problem when installing an app. > > > 1) Is it possible to install an app solely on SD Card ? > > > 2) Otherwise, packaging an actual app and its data in separate > > packages will make installation a confusing for a user 2-step process. > > Maybe it's possible to ship one zip file and make the android's > > installer do the work of installing an app on the phone and app's data > > on SD card ? > > > Any recommendations are really appreciated. > > > Thank you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
