It all depends on the nature of your application. I'm sure the market has a size limit well below 600MB. If it is a regular app meant for regular users to download, very few people are willing to download 600MB files over a 3G connection.
Again, I would say it depends on the nature of your application. You might just have the user download a single g/bzipped file to the sdcard if you think they'll be willing to wait for the download. If you think they might not have the patience then you'll probably have to end up streaming them from your server. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:50 AM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Greg W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> But ideally I'd like for the videos to be included in the application >> download from the market. I'm not even sure if that's possible. > > It's not. There's some threshold limit based on someone's post in the > Android Help Forum, though I don't remember what it was. > >> >> Is there a way to specify resources in your Android project that will not >> be stored in the application space but instead stored on the sdcard? > > Don't think so, but regardless the user would have to have the space (and > time to download such a behemoth) to install it to begin with. Very few > people are going to be willing to download a 600 MB app. Hell, people > complain about anything over 1MB. > > > Do the background download as you already suggested, perhaps giving the user > the option to choose what they want to download. Even with an SD card, 600 > MB is a ridiculous amount of space for a single app to require on a mobile > device. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > -- > 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 -- ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 Android 2D MMORPG: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx -- 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
