I've had issues with the market installs as well (at least on 1.5), where a 6mb apk required 24mb of free space to install...
- Dan On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:50 PM, RichardC <richard.crit...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > I am running an application (CoPilot) on my HTC Magic that has > installed 197Mb on my SD card. However its download size from the > Market is only 6.92Mb. The rest of the data was post installed (maps) > that I downloaded via WiFi using the phone. There is also an option > to download the maps to your PC and copy them to the SD card. > > The point I am trying to make here is, I probably would not download a > large (10s of Mb) applcation from the Market because the apk file has > to go into the internal memory and this is a precious resource to me. > However putting large amounts of data on the SD card later is no > problem. > > With your example of installing from an SD card, can you not leave > most of the data on the SD card and just install the application code > on the phone? > > -- > RichardC > > On Oct 9, 8:11 pm, rollbak <roll...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Which is the max application size that can be installed in Android? > > > > I have made several tests in different Android handsets (Hero, G1, > > Motorola Motus, Samsung Behold 2), and using adb i was able of > > installing up to 100mb application in Hero and Motus, but trying to > > install by SD card or OTA i was limited to a maximum of 50mb (even if > > the devices have 200mb of free space). > > > > Does anyone know which are the restrictions here? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lucas > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
