Re: [android-developers] What About Oversize Apps?
Could the app still be installed OK if their phone wasn't already crowded with other large apps? Your application will take 22-44MB to install, depending on whether or not you use the Android Market copy protection. Will more memory likely become available soon? That is impossible to predict. Do the Droid and Nexus have more than the old HTC phones? Yes, but still only around 200MB. My DROID clocks in at 240MB free with some apps installed; my Nexus One has 175MB free with some apps installed. You may wish to consider downloading your images on first run and storing them on the SD card. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html -- 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
Re: [android-developers] What About Oversize Apps?
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Will more memory likely become available soon? It's highly likely. That is impossible to predict. Is it really? Every new computer I've built or bought in the last 20 years had more memory than it's predecessor. Knowing the specs of my last several phones, I predict my next phone will indeed have more ram than the one I have now. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- 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
Re: [android-developers] What About Oversize Apps?
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:49 AM, ian stilbit...@gmail.com wrote: My almost compled app has a couple of hundred images and tips the scales at a (bloated) 11 mb. But I'd rather leave it that size. Why? So I'm trying to figure out what this would mean to a user. For me, personally, this would mean that unless your app was the most awesomest thing ever on my phone and completely indispensable, it would be the first to go when I needed to clear space for something new. And I would probably never re-install it knowing how much space it took up. I'd second Mark's suggestion to cache to the SD what you need as you need it. Will the user really need a couple of hundred images at any given time? - TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- 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
