Thanks Mark,
I though that was the answer. I'll have to live with the file.
Cheers,

Nuno

On Jun 25, 1:39 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> nuno wrote:
> > I have a large (900kb) asset in the assets directory which is only
> > used once by the app at initialization time. Is there way for me to
> > delete this file at runtime?
>
> No.
>
> > If not delete change it's contents to "0" and effectively reduce its
> > size to almost nothing.
>
> No.
>
> > There isn't really any point of having this take space on the phone's
> > limited memory.
>
> That may be true, but the APK is signed and cannot be modified at runtime.
>
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