Re: [android-developers] Re: Remote resources

2012-11-01 Thread Francisco Marzoa
That's the approach I was talking about on my first message, but it's not so simple as downloading a file. You must also manage by yourself resource selection on localized apps, for example. And also resource changes among different app versions. It is not very difficult, but if there is something

[android-developers] Re: Remote resources

2012-10-31 Thread bob
Maybe just have it connect to a web site and download http://www.example.com/resources.zip on the first run. Then unzip that to the SD card. I have seen GLU mobile do some stuff like this, and they are legit. On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 8:35:11 AM UTC-5, Fran wrote: > > Hi there, > >

Re: [android-developers] Re: Remote resources

2012-10-31 Thread Francisco Marzoa
Hi, Well, after reading that whole document, I have found that using multiple apks have a lot more inconveniences in addition to managing multiple builds. In the same document they insist a lot on NOT using multiple apks if you can avoid it due these inconveniences. So in the end it does not

Re: [android-developers] Re: Remote resources

2012-10-31 Thread Francisco Marzoa
Hi, You are right. I thought this was just for breaking too big apks into smaller parts, but thats not the case. This solves a great percent of the problem, and although you still have the inconvenience of managing multiple builds, this may be the best approach anyway, having in account the

[android-developers] Re: Remote resources

2012-10-31 Thread Johan Appelgren
Have you looked at using Multiple APKs? http://developer.android.com/guide/google/play/publishing/multiple-apks.html Wont solve the overhead of managing multiple builds, but at least you wont "disperse social promotion". On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:35:11 PM UTC+1, Fran wrote: > > Hi there