We are starting a project that we want to contain a large number of images in a reference database. It would need one PDB file containing over 8,000 JPEG images, each around 2-3kb a piece. So, this makes for a very large file. "Large" is, of course, a relative term. It's prohibitively large for someone without a memory card, but for someone with a 128MB or larger memory card, it's no big deal. However, it also could be prohibitively large for people who want to download the database from the Internet and wait for the (painfully slow) HotSync process to transfer the bloated file to their device.
What I'm looking for are some successful projects that may have been in a similar situation. Are there commercial packages out there that have such severe memory requirements (the only ones I could find were media players where you pick and choose individual multimedia files to copy to your card -- not actual packages where the requirements out of the box were very large). Has anyway had any experience with this? Any horror stories? Success stories? Pointers? At this point we are thinking the size itself isn't too bad (i.e. most people have large enough memory cards), but we are worried about installation time. We are wondering if it would make sense to market the product on a pre-installed memory card rather than a download off the Internet. I would appreciate any feedback. TIA. David -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
