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Reputation: 441

Windows Phone 7.5 XAP Package Size requirement

Windows Phone 7.1/7.5/Mango Silverlight App.

Coming from here: Need clarification on using audio on button click, background audio, etc in Windows Phone

Our designer will be converting all the mp3s to .wav files. Done few and they are coming to about 200kb each. The current estimate is we might have like 100+ of those for our app.

I know the Certification Requirment is:

The maximum size of the XAP package file is 225 MB.

Designer said he will try to compress them down to about 100kb making sure sound quality is ok as well.

Though I am sure we won't exceed 225MB but I think lesser is better as it will affect the download time on the device as well. Don't want the user to quit download halfway. I read somewhere there is some time restiction as well for certification.

Is this acceptable, or am I missing any other strategies for keeping my audio files small other than compression? Are there any other considerations I need to take into account when certifying a large app?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 676

Answers (2)

Waleed
Waleed

Reputation: 3145

Keep in mind that the number of video files and resources together shouldn't exceed 2000 files (Plus the size requirement of course). I had a lot of issues in my experience with submitting xap packages that contains a lot of files. The last app was a video dictionary that contains more than 2000 video files all with tiny size but that didn't work well, though the size was just 90 Mega bytes, the responses from the support are slow and we had to wait each time to finally find that we had to respect this rule which is not documented

Upvotes: 1

McKay
McKay

Reputation: 12624

IMO, download times don't largely affect conversion rates, because they download in the background. I'll frequently download a few apps, then check back on them the next day or so.

Upvotes: 0

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