[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Sherman
I've filed a bug about the issue, can be seen here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4250 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:21 AM, westmeadboy westmead...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: It would be nice if the Manifest could specify the ratio (default would be 4). On Oct 14, 12:17 pm, Lucas

[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-14 Thread Marco Nelissen
That doesn't make sense. The ratio follows from how the system installs apps, so it would be silly to allow apps to override it. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM, westmeadboy westmead...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: It would be nice if the Manifest could specify the ratio (default would be 4). On

[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-14 Thread westmeadboy
On Oct 15, 1:16 am, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: That doesn't make sense. The ratio follows from how the system installs apps, so it would be silly to allow apps to override it. But why exactly is it 4x the APK LENGTH? Maybe the uncompressed apk length is more relevant? For

[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-13 Thread Lucas
Hello, This is not an option for me. I am studying the possibility of porting my iPhone HD games (50mb-200mb) to Android, and having the assets in the sdcard or downloaded it's not what i want. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. On Oct 9, 4:50 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-13 Thread Lucas
Hello, Well finally i found what is happening. And it explains the issues i was having and also what you said. I decided to take a look at the OS installer process, and i found the code that explains it all. packageinstaller/PackageInstallerActiviity.java (line 293): //compute the

[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-13 Thread westmeadboy
It would be nice if the Manifest could specify the ratio (default would be 4). On Oct 14, 12:17 pm, Lucas roll...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Well finally i found what is happening. And it explains the issues i was having and also what you said. I decided to take a look at the OS installer

[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-09 Thread RichardC
I am running an application (CoPilot) on my HTC Magic that has installed 197Mb on my SD card. However its download size from the Market is only 6.92Mb. The rest of the data was post installed (maps) that I downloaded via WiFi using the phone. There is also an option to download the maps to

[android-developers] Re: Max app size

2009-10-09 Thread Dan Sherman
I've had issues with the market installs as well (at least on 1.5), where a 6mb apk required 24mb of free space to install... - Dan On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:50 PM, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.comwrote: I am running an application (CoPilot) on my HTC Magic that has installed 197Mb on