What's inside APK file?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

I have this question in my mind some months ago, but still cannot find the answer, so it’s time to ask.

I saw the is a lot of stuff that my app will never use in the APK file: facebook icon, open feint icon, google icon, paypal icon, emotions … and in the layout folder, you added papaya stuffs, something like chat service. Internet permission also added (my app don’t need internet).

Can you guys explain me why?

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#2

I think Ansca is looking into this, as it stands I believe
they are working on other higher needed items… :slight_smile:

I too would like to see Ansca look into NOT putting some
of the bloat that don’t need to be there, IF it’s not used
but, I also understand this easier said then just doing it…
in the meantime I try to keep my code and files as optimized
as I can…

Rest assured that they are looking into a set of solutions
or solution for all of us…regarding this matter…:wink:
As per this post…hope this helps …(for now anyway…)

http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2012/01/23/why-corona-copies-unwanted-images-build-files
Happy coding :wink:

Larry
“Follow Your Dreams!”

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#3

sharp1959 is correct that they are looking into making apk’s smaller. For the time being I use apk manager to unpack my apk. Once the apk is unpacked I then remove things that are not needed then repackage the apk and submit it to the market.

I did notice on one of the daily builds that they have added a new section to the build.settings called “components” that will allow you to specify game center, papya, etc. I think this will the the future way to include/excluded components from buids.
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#4

We are having 1 star rating because of this.

Here is from user comment:

If this app is add free why does it need access to phone state and internet? 1 star for all apps with crap permissions.

I tried to search on this forum, there a lot of question like this before, but still there is no good solution, exception, you have to unpack APK file, remove unused permissions, then pack the file again, which is very bad solution. [import]uid: 91892 topic_id: 20913 reply_id: 85517[/import]