I had a suggestion regarding multiple languages and apks etc. There are a few issues I can see. The bandwidth as you've mentioned, the management of multiple .apks as others have mentioned in this thread and then there's people needing to buy the application multiple times if they wish to get more than one localization with the split system.
I'd like to suggest that changes go into the market rather than on the developer end for this. It would be useful if the market gave the user the choice of which locales they wanted. It could just store a stripped version of the .apk on the server along with each of the locales taken from the .apk we submit with all locales included. Then pushes an .apk with the required combination of localized assets included. It avoids redundant effort that would be taken again and again and gives the user the most flexible experience that could be achieved short of it dynamically downloading assets separately so it only ever sent the minimal .apk for the app. Though if that could be achieved whilst maintaining backward compatibility that'd be even better. Cheers, Alan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
