Hi folks,
Here’s my issue. I just signed up to Google Play and noticed that my app needs to be 50mb or less or I have to resort to extension files. I’m actually just over 50mb… something like 56mb for my app. What I was thinking of doing is taking the 2x images down 75% to make them 1.5x and that would bring the file sizes down enough to make it less than 50mb. Do you think this is a wise idea? [import]uid: 79620 topic_id: 31922 reply_id: 331922[/import]
One thing you could also try is simply removing a few of the 2x images, being very selective in terms of removing ones having the least visual impact. Images that you are scaling down within your app might actually look fine using the 1x versions only.
Another thing to try, if you have a bunch of large jpg images such as backgrounds, is to increase the jpg compression for some/all of them until you get under 50mb. They’ll get more artifacts but for some images the artifacts might not be noticeable. Likewise, if you are using pngs without alpha, you could convert them to highly compressed jpgs. [import]uid: 9422 topic_id: 31922 reply_id: 127339[/import]
One thing you could also try is simply removing a few of the 2x images, being very selective in terms of removing ones having the least visual impact. Images that you are scaling down within your app might actually look fine using the 1x versions only.
Another thing to try, if you have a bunch of large jpg images such as backgrounds, is to increase the jpg compression for some/all of them until you get under 50mb. They’ll get more artifacts but for some images the artifacts might not be noticeable. Likewise, if you are using pngs without alpha, you could convert them to highly compressed jpgs. [import]uid: 9422 topic_id: 31922 reply_id: 127339[/import]