[android-developers] Re: Why is the market listing my app as exactly twice the size of the APK I uploaded?
copy-protection doubles the amount of size needed to store the app on the device indeed. JBQ On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: For Wuzzle, the signed trial APK is 878KB and the signed full game APK is 934KB. I do have copy protection turned on for both and it did say it would increase the space needed. I figured that meant it would add an extra 10KB or something reasonable. They are listed on the market as being 1.71MB and 1.82MB respectively. I didn't think it would literally double the app size! My other game, Light Racer has a signed APK of 288KB and is posted with no copy protection. It is listed on the market as 289KB, which is correct. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Jean-Baptiste M. JBQ Queru Android Engineer, Google. Please don't contact me directly. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Why is the market listing my app as exactly twice the size of the APK I uploaded?
Just a little more depth on it... If you look at what the copy protection is doing - it dumps your normal .apk to /data/app-private then puts a .zip in /data/app The .apk is your originally signed one - and the .zip is you manifest, resources and res folder. So that res folder basically doubles your size since it contacts copies of all of the resources you also contain in your .apk -Tim On Feb 26, 11:23 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: copy-protection doubles the amount of size needed to store the app on the device indeed. JBQ On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: For Wuzzle, the signed trial APK is 878KB and the signed full game APK is 934KB. I do have copy protection turned on for both and it did say it would increase the space needed. I figured that meant it would add an extra 10KB or something reasonable. They are listed on the market as being 1.71MB and 1.82MB respectively. I didn't think it would literally double the app size! My other game, Light Racer has a signed APK of 288KB and is posted with no copy protection. It is listed on the market as 289KB, which is correct. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Jean-Baptiste M. JBQ Queru Android Engineer, Google. Please don't contact me directly. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Why is the market listing my app as exactly twice the size of the APK I uploaded?
Ouch! That seems like a horribly inefficient way to do it! Perhaps I will shut off the copy protection until it's implemented better. On Feb 26, 11:03 pm, strazzere str...@gmail.com wrote: Just a little more depth on it... If you look at what the copy protection is doing - it dumps your normal .apk to /data/app-private then puts a .zip in /data/app The .apk is your originally signed one - and the .zip is you manifest, resources and res folder. So that res folder basically doubles your size since it contacts copies of all of the resources you also contain in your .apk -Tim On Feb 26, 11:23 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: copy-protection doubles the amount of size needed to store the app on the device indeed. JBQ On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: For Wuzzle, the signed trial APK is 878KB and the signed full game APK is 934KB. I do have copy protection turned on for both and it did say it would increase the space needed. I figured that meant it would add an extra 10KB or something reasonable. They are listed on the market as being 1.71MB and 1.82MB respectively. I didn't think it would literally double the app size! My other game, Light Racer has a signed APK of 288KB and is posted with no copy protection. It is listed on the market as 289KB, which is correct. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Jean-Baptiste M. JBQ Queru Android Engineer, Google. Please don't contact me directly. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
