The .apk is read-only, and can not be modified.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM, jarkman <jark...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> We've got a similar issue, with a bunch of files that we extract from
> the apk on first run and will never need in the apk again.
>
> It is a terrible waste of space to leave them there. Shame.
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Dec 15, 9:16 pm, Ralf <ralfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can think of the the APK as being a read-only zip file, so I don't
> > think you can remove anything from it. You don't really need to remove
> > your lib from the apk anyway, do you?
> >
> > R/
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:50 AM, shuoshuo <wzshuos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have made an application, it uses a C++ shared library, I want
> > > deploy it by including it with the .apk package, at run time, copy it
> > > from the assets to a file, then remove it from assets in apk, how
> > > could I remove a file from assets in apk at runtime? or Is there any
> > > other alternative to deploy a C++ shared library?
> >
> >
> >
>


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