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bytebiscuit
bytebiscuit

Reputation: 3496

How to handle 150 Mb of raw videos and music files in Android

I've been developing this content-based app for Android which includes over 120 MB of video .mp4-files saved on the raw folder and in addition it includes over 20 MB of sound files also saved in the raw folder.

The problem is I cannot install the app on my Android phone due to limited internal memory to handle all those files. Also, I read somewhere that the app size limit on the Android market is 50MB so I won't be able to even upload the damn thing.

I've saved the videos on the raw folder as I was able to play them fine (using VideoView).

My question is how do i cope with such size, do I have to go through making the user download the content after installing the app or is there any other way of dealing with such sizes (~140 MB).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 632

Answers (2)

slayton
slayton

Reputation: 20309

You cannot distribute an APK through the market that is more than 50MB. Its not a good idea to take up 120MB of the internal storage for a single app as many phones don't have a lot of internal storage space.

You should consider stripping out all of the large files, hosting them on a server and then having the application download the files on the first launch. I would also recommend you save the files to the SD card so you don't use up too much of the precious internal storage.

Edit: I will admit that any time an app tries to download a lot of data on the initial launch I get really frustrated. Make sure you do it in a way that doesn't require the activity to be open the entire time the file is downloading. Do the downloading through a service so the user can at least use their phone while your app is downloading the media files.

Upvotes: 3

Egor
Egor

Reputation: 40218

Well, if you're sure you need all this content inside your application, the only solution I see is to download the content from a server when the application is opened for the first time. But as a user I think I won't be very happy to have a 150 Mb application on my phone. Do you really need all this data?

Upvotes: 0

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