Well there isn't a definitive answer. We've said that the total available space on internal storage is about 70MB. You can judge from that how likely a user is to keep your app based on its size.
Fwiw, based on 70MB total available, you will probably find very very few people keeping a 30MB app. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > > This question has been raised quite a few times here and on the web > and not ONCE I've seen a definitive answer from a Google employee on > the question "what's the maximum .apk size which will install on an > Android device with sufficient memory". The regular answers have > always been along the "make your app smaller, the device's memory is > shared" (well you should have thought about that before releasing > Android and making it possible to launch apps from the SD card, > right?), "re-encode your .mp3s", etc. I guess the only way to be sure > is to start adding files to your project, building the .apk and > checking whether it would install (that's what I'm planning to do > anyway). > > Re .mp3s, you surely can't expect the device to play a 48KHz .mp3 w/ a > 320kbps bitrate so you can safely drop the quality to say 32KHz @ > 128kbps and the user wouldn't notice it for sure. > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mahesh Vaghela <[email protected]> > wrote: > > AusR, > > Thanks a lot for your reply. > > > > The sound quality is very much important to me as entire charm of my > > application depends on those music files. > > > > But can anyone throw some light on storage limitation of android > > application? > > > > Friends, this question will be important to us much more when market will > > allow paid application. So please start a discussion on this. > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, AusR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Are you sure the mp3s need to be of the quality and duration they are. > >> For the purposes of a mobile handset application, for which the audio > >> playback technology is not fixed they could be re-encoded with a lower > >> bit-rate (or shortened) without too much loss in audible quality. this > >> could reduce the file size significantly. > >> > >> (Just a suggestion) > >> > >> Aus. > >> > >> > >> On Jan 9, 4:57 am, "Mahesh Vaghela" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi Friends, > >> > > >> > I want to develop an application which can play sound (.mp3) files. I > am > >> > able to play this as I wish. > >> > > >> > But I am concern about the total file size of my application due to > this > >> > mp3 > >> > files. I have total 6 mp3 files and total size of them becomes more > than > >> > 30mb. > >> > > >> > This is very large when we talk for android. (For Iphone it's not a > >> > large > >> > one!) > >> > > >> > I have read that total allocated size for android application is just > >> > 128 or > >> > 256 MB only. > >> > > >> > a) > >> > Is this information right (Or we can use more than this)? > >> > > >> > b) What is the maximum application size google market allows for > >> > publishing > >> > an application? > >> > > >> > c) Is there any way by which we can put our mp3 files on some other > >> > place? > >> > > >> > Many thanks in advance. > >> > > >> > Mahesh Vaghela > >> > > >> > http://www.indianic.com > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Mahesh Vaghela > > http://www.indianic.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
