Thanks for the responses,

Dianne, what do you mean by forward-locked?

- Dan

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:

> If your app is forward locked, it can take significantly more space, even
> after the install is done (unfortunately all of the resources currently have
> to be installed twice).
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> The package installer looks to take up a good amount of space when
>> installing applications.  We've published a very large game (ProjectINF -
>> 6mb).  And it looks to be taking up a good amount of space during the
>> install process, to the point that we have a lot of users emailing us with
>> complaints/requests to "fix it".
>>
>> From what we've seen, it looks to take about 22mb of free space to install
>> a 6mb apk.  While I can imagine taking double or so for unpacking and temp
>> locations, almost 4x the size seems a bit high.  After an install with 22mb
>> free, the device has 16mb free (which makes perfect sense).
>>
>> Users also seem to be getting errors on the market when trying to install
>> with less than that amount of space (with no real clear error message, just
>> "Install Failed".
>>
>> I doubt theres anything we can do on our side (besides shrinking our app
>> all around), but figured I'd ask :)
>>
>> - Dan
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> 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.
>
>
>
> >
>

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