On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> bleucalme wrote:
> > Anyone was able to play a video included in the .apk? I'm able to play
> > this video from the SD card but not when it's a resource.
>
> I doubt that will work well. APKs are ZIP files, so you're asking the
> device to uncompress the video and play it back, which would require a
> fair amount of horsepower.


Not really. Certain file types (mp4, mp3, ogg and a bunch of others) that
need to be accessed directly. These files are in the zip file uncompressed,
and so their data can be accessed without much overhead.

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