Hi Friends, Thank you very much for starting this discussion. Based on your suggestion I am going to first reduce the file size by changing it to 32KHz @ 128kbps. But I dont think this will do as any mp3 files are already a reduced size file.
One of my current mp3 file is of size 13.9mb developed at 44Khz sample rate and 160kbps Bit Rate. If I try to reduce this further I dont think it will end up to less than 10 to 11mb. I really like Peli's idea of "downloads the mp3 files the first time it is launched, and saves them on the SD card" But this idea will need hosting of a web server from where user can download the mp3 files on first run. Instead of this all, the best way I feel is when a user downloads his apk file from Android Market all the code should go in application folder and all mp3 should be moved to sd card. * Friends, is there any way by which we can directly put our mp3 files on sd card, just at the time of installation?* This is possible with windows mobile but I dont know how to do this with android. On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > Well there isn't a definitive answer. We've said that the total available > space on internal storage is about 70MB. You can judge from that how likely > a user is to keep your app based on its size. > > Fwiw, based on 70MB total available, you will probably find very very few > people keeping a 30MB app. > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> This question has been raised quite a few times here and on the web >> and not ONCE I've seen a definitive answer from a Google employee on >> the question "what's the maximum .apk size which will install on an >> Android device with sufficient memory". The regular answers have >> always been along the "make your app smaller, the device's memory is >> shared" (well you should have thought about that before releasing >> Android and making it possible to launch apps from the SD card, >> right?), "re-encode your .mp3s", etc. I guess the only way to be sure >> is to start adding files to your project, building the .apk and >> checking whether it would install (that's what I'm planning to do >> anyway). >> >> Re .mp3s, you surely can't expect the device to play a 48KHz .mp3 w/ a >> 320kbps bitrate so you can safely drop the quality to say 32KHz @ >> 128kbps and the user wouldn't notice it for sure. >> >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mahesh Vaghela <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > AusR, >> > Thanks a lot for your reply. >> > >> > The sound quality is very much important to me as entire charm of my >> > application depends on those music files. >> > >> > But can anyone throw some light on storage limitation of android >> > application? >> > >> > Friends, this question will be important to us much more when market >> will >> > allow paid application. So please start a discussion on this. >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, AusR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Are you sure the mp3s need to be of the quality and duration they are. >> >> For the purposes of a mobile handset application, for which the audio >> >> playback technology is not fixed they could be re-encoded with a lower >> >> bit-rate (or shortened) without too much loss in audible quality. this >> >> could reduce the file size significantly. >> >> >> >> (Just a suggestion) >> >> >> >> Aus. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 9, 4:57 am, "Mahesh Vaghela" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi Friends, >> >> > >> >> > I want to develop an application which can play sound (.mp3) files. I >> am >> >> > able to play this as I wish. >> >> > >> >> > But I am concern about the total file size of my application due to >> this >> >> > mp3 >> >> > files. I have total 6 mp3 files and total size of them becomes more >> than >> >> > 30mb. >> >> > >> >> > This is very large when we talk for android. (For Iphone it's not a >> >> > large >> >> > one!) >> >> > >> >> > I have read that total allocated size for android application is just >> >> > 128 or >> >> > 256 MB only. >> >> > >> >> > a) >> >> > Is this information right (Or we can use more than this)? >> >> > >> >> > b) What is the maximum application size google market allows for >> >> > publishing >> >> > an application? >> >> > >> >> > c) Is there any way by which we can put our mp3 files on some other >> >> > place? >> >> > >> >> > Many thanks in advance. >> >> > >> >> > Mahesh Vaghela >> >> > >> >> > http://www.indianic.com >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Mahesh Vaghela >> > http://www.indianic.com >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> > > > -- > 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. 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