My app was about 1.5M, after adding 12 languages I am now looking at 3M because of the multiple string.xml files in the resources. Yes, they are big but it only became a problem after adding all these languages. And I want to add more languages...
Does anybody have an idea of how to localize with more awareness to bloat? These are the strategies I can think of. They all require some serious work to put into practice: 1) Split the apk - Create several language apks to reduce bloat. - Make the existing apk people paid for just a license apk. - The individual language apks are free in the market but will not work without installation of the main apk. Contra: one has to maintain several apk files 2) Download additional resources - The apk contains only enough translations to instruct users to download full language packages of their choice. - The language packages downloaded onto the SD card (simple xml files) - The app loads the xml file and creates its own table of resource strings which is used instead of R.string. Contra: This adds to the load time of the app if the string.xml is really big. Any other ideas? Thanks for your input, Martin mobitobi Gentle Alarm SleepNow -- 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
