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Muhammad Maqsoodur Rehman
Muhammad Maqsoodur Rehman

Reputation: 34297

Android: Whats the maximum size of app that i can upload to the market?

I have 3 video files each of 70 MB in my raw folder besides other audio files of few KBs. I am getting an installation error of insufficient space on the DROID while testing my app. I tried uninstalling apps and am now left with apps that are essential to the device.

What needs to be done to resolve this issue? I also wonder what will be the app size that i am allowed to upload to the android market?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1878

Answers (2)

Job_September_2020
Job_September_2020

Reputation: 880

As of January 2017:

The maximum size for an APK published on Google Play is 100 MB.

You can use up to two (2) APK Expansion Files, each up to 2GB in size, for each APK.

If your app exceeds that size, or if you want to offer a secondary download, you can use APK Expansion Files, which Google Play will host for free on its server infrastructure and automatically handle the download to devices.

Here is the link: https://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/launch-checklist.html

(Note: You should scroll down to item 6 on that link to view the info about max size.)

Upvotes: 2

EboMike
EboMike

Reputation: 77762

Most apps solve this by letting users download the data files from their own server - that way, you can download them to the SD card. Remember that prior to Froyo (Android 2.2), all data ended up in the very limited internal storage of the phone, so 70MB would essentially force users to remove all their other apps just to make room for yours.

Upvotes: 2

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