As far as I know, internal, inbuilt apps count zero for the app size itself. Just try and clear i.e. all browser data and it shows up as 0 byte! The 4k I think is for some data stored by the calculator like the last result to be re-shown on application start.
-- http://www.deepdroid.com On Apr 15, 4:12 pm, droozen <droozenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I wrote my own calculator app because I wanted to have some > different functionality than the calculator that comes with the phone. > Now, I notice the calculator that came with the phone, when looking > through the Manage Applications, only shows as being 4kb in size. My > calculator ends up being 104kb after all is said and done. > > Anyone have an idea why the huge difference in size? I mean, I know I > built my calculator to do more than the built in one, but I didn't > think it was doing 25 times more stuff than the built in one! I can't > even make an empty Word document that small (4kb). A Notepad document > with 10 characters takes up 4kb on disk. > > I'm not complaining, just curious. Is the built in calculator app that > shows up in Manage Applications just a shortcut, or whatever, into the > OS, and the functionality actually resides there? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
