Space limitations?

**g1bb** · 10-09-2008, 06:24 PM

Hello,

I've written an app that uses a fair amount of resources (.png, .mp3). What size should I generally limit my files to? Is there a standard at all?

Thanks in advance!

**jasont** · 10-10-2008, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by g1bb

Hello,

I've written an app that uses a fair amount of resources (.png, .mp3). What size should I generally limit my files to? Is there a standard at all?

Thanks in advance!

How large is your .apk?

What about storing the resources on a server and using the client to access when required.

**stopcrazypp** · 10-11-2008, 03:59 AM

Originally Posted by g1bb

Hello,

I've written an app that uses a fair amount of resources (.png, .mp3). What size should I generally limit my files to? Is there a standard at all?

Thanks in advance!

http://groups.google.com/group/andro...250d27e02efd92

50k-500k according to that.

I can verify a couple of apks I can find online are in that range.

But in general there is no standard, but it is good to keep it in that general range.

**jasont** · 10-11-2008, 02:15 PM

Several applications are already above 500k. I think you'll see the more "professional" applications being 2mb+, obviously it depends on what the application is.

**stopcrazypp** · 10-11-2008, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by jasont

Several applications are already above 500k. I think you'll see the more "professional" applications being 2mb+, obviously it depends on what the application is.

I suppose that is true, there are some apps that are above 500k (I think I saw a few of the games above, mostly because of pictures/sounds). It does depend on whether your app relies on a lot of media like pictures or sounds. But right now with news that so far apps can only be installed on the phone memory, I think it is better to keep it as low as possible. Hopefully they open it up in the future so apps can at least put the media portions of apps on the sdcard or I imagine some of the games won't be able to fit on the phone memory.

**Atean** · 10-12-2008, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by stopcrazypp

I suppose that is true, there are some apps that are above 500k (I think I saw a few of the games above, mostly because of pictures/sounds). It does depend on whether your app relies on a lot of media like pictures or sounds. But right now with news that so far apps can only be installed on the phone memory, I think it is better to keep it as low as possible. Hopefully they open it up in the future so apps can at least put the media portions of apps on the sdcard or I imagine some of the games won't be able to fit on the phone memory.

This was one of my greatest concerns since the beginning... Supposedly it has only 256 MB Flash memory built-in. How much of this is going to be taken over by the Android OS and it's pre-packaged Apps? How much is going to be left for us to install additional Apps?

Either way, I plan on putting EVERYTHING media related on the SD card. Photos, videos, documents, and all that... But I'm wondering how much space on the Phone itself we're goign to be left with.