On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:43:16 PM UTC-4, Drezden wrote: >> >> I would also suggest that you look into ways to pull your tiles from >> the web instead of storing them on the device. You very rarely see >> apps in the wild that have a larger footprint than 20mb and some >> devices like the G1 only have 70mb of storage TOTAL for all apps. So >> you're basically asking someone to remove everything from their device >> to load your app. > > Yes, traditional versions of android it would indeed be preferable to > download the large dataset seperately and store it on the external storage > ("sdcard"). > > However, for devices which permit installation to external storge or for > honeycomb and later where it's all the same pool of flash blocks anyway, the > difference would be a short initial download followed by a long data > download within the app when it is first run. > > While it's tempting to think that data delivered in the apk is more secure, > it's fairly trivial to extract. However data placed in external storage can > be modified more easily, so might need a fingerprint check. > >> > My observation is: When the asset folder contains around 80mb of >> > files, the app works nicely both on the emulator and on my nexus one. >> > When it's larger than 80mb it crashes on both devices. the devises are >> > running 2.3.3 Api level 10 (but it happens on 3.2, too). > > Just to make sure the problem is on the running end and not the building > end, it could be worth opening the apk (it's just a carefully constructed > zip file with a funny name) on a pc and verifying that all the files are > there.
Yea. Should be okay... Thanks a lot for the advice - really helps to understand how things are intended to work on android :) Do you know any examples and code snipplets that show how to implement such a download-at-start function best? I guess there is a lot to take into account like storage available, where to store stuff and so on... Thanks a lot again :) Best, Raphael > > -- > 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 -- inc: http://ars-machina.raphaelbauer.com tech: http://ars-codia.raphaelbauer.com web: http://raphaelbauer.com -- 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
