Size of App in Google Play Market much bigger than it should How to fix

Solar2D Android
#1

I have a very peculiar problem, and I am wondering if other people have run into this.

We have an app, Stack N Puzzles, whose size as listed in the Google Play market is significantly different than its actual size.

In the Google Android Market, it is listed as 54MB. But the apk that was originally uploaded into the store was ~30MB. And after I downloaded the app, when I go into Settings->Manage Application to check it, it shows the app size as 33MB.

Does anyone know why the discrepancy and how to fix it? Obviously the big problem this is creating for me is to push the size of my app past the 50 MB OTA limit, so now everyone who wants my app have to be connected to Wifi.

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#2

Are you using openfeint?

If not if you specify this line in your build.settings file (under the andoid section) it should save you several megabytes.

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#3

Hi @Danny ,

Would you mind explaining why that line makes so much difference regarding “saving phisical space”?
Thanks in advance,
Rodrigo.

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#4

Hi akao,

My guess is that you checked the “Copy Protection” flag when you submitted the app to the Android Market. This insanely increases the app size.
Just turn it off and wait a little (Android Market may take a while to perform the update).

br,
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#5

@ cleversons - you are correct, I do use copy protection flag when submitting the app to Android. Let me try it without and report back.

@danny - can you explain a bit what that flag does? I just tried it, it actually didn’t impact my .apk size that is created on my machine.
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#6

Everyone,

The OpenFeint setting that Danny mentioned only affects iOS builds. It does not affect Android builds. So, please disregard. Cleverson has the right answer. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 25829 reply_id: 104952[/import]

#7

@cleversons, @joshua, @danny

And I can confirm that indeed, after taking out the copy protection, the listed size of my app fell close to what the apk size actually is.

Thanks for everyone’s help!
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