On Jul 28, 8:57 am, Joseph Earl <joseph.w.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sadly, Android Market does not currently have provisions for large
> applications.
> If you need large data, you'll have to store it on your own web-server
> and download it to the SD card on first run (via HTTP or possibly
> FTP). Remember this isn't secure, any user or app will be able to get
> at your files.
>
> There are no installation scripts like Windows Mobile, e.g. you can't
> tell the installer to send only SOME files to the SD card.
>
> There is an example on how to accomplish this. See:
> 1)http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
> 2)http://stackoverflow.com/questions/973127/android-application-requiri...
>
> However it's not ideal:
> 1) Files are not copy protected in any way. This is fine for some
> people, for others (like major game studios) it's not.
> 2) User effectively has to go through another download screen. They
> may well be tempted to just not bother, especially if it takes a
> while.
> 3) Developer has to provide his or her own web-server. While this
> might be fine if your app isn't that popular/isn't too large,
> expecting developers to carry the burden of hosting 100MBs of files
> and providing the bandwidth for possibly hundreds of thousands of
> users all while continuing to pay Google the same share for sales is
> in my view not particularly fair on developers.
>
> Still, the market is improving and hopefully it will approach the
> level of quality available in *other* app stores within a year or two.
>
> On Jul 28, 4:31 pm, jb <cona...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm just about done with development and emulator testing and I'm
> > unclear how to proceed with getting my application ready for actual
> > device testing and them publishing.
>
> > Here's my main concern: I have around 600 images that I will need to
> > have loaded (on initial installation) onto an sd card. What is the
> > best way to do this? HTTP? Is there an automated process? Is this
> > handled by an installation script.
>
> > Are there documents that cover this type of scenario?
>
> > When it comes time for actual publishing the application, again, how
> > will I handle loading the images onto the sd card during the initial
> > installation?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > jb
>
>
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