Correct. The numbers are intended to tell you how much space the app is using in /data, thus how much space you would make available for other things if you removed that data. The code for the built-in applications is in /system, so only their data files are included in those numbers.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:29 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > > As far as I know, internal, inbuilt apps count zero for the app size > itself. Just try and clear i.e. all browser data and it shows up as 0 > byte! > The 4k I think is for some data stored by the calculator like the last > result to be re-shown on application start. > > -- > > http://www.deepdroid.com > > > On Apr 15, 4:12 pm, droozen <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I wrote my own calculator app because I wanted to have some > > different functionality than the calculator that comes with the phone. > > Now, I notice the calculator that came with the phone, when looking > > through the Manage Applications, only shows as being 4kb in size. My > > calculator ends up being 104kb after all is said and done. > > > > Anyone have an idea why the huge difference in size? I mean, I know I > > built my calculator to do more than the built in one, but I didn't > > think it was doing 25 times more stuff than the built in one! I can't > > even make an empty Word document that small (4kb). A Notepad document > > with 10 characters takes up 4kb on disk. > > > > I'm not complaining, just curious. Is the built in calculator app that > > shows up in Manage Applications just a shortcut, or whatever, into the > > OS, and the functionality actually resides there? > > > -- 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
