Actually the resource table (which includes all strings) is not stored
compressed, so it can be mmapped. Worse, the strings are stored as UTF-16.
(I know, I know, that was dumb. I am ashamed.)
Bloated apps as the number of localizations increase is definitely an issue
(look at Maps as an example), which we will hopefully be addressing this
year.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
Is it possible to have an external strings.xml or something like that?
I'd like to translate my application into several different languages,
but the apk would become to large if I include all languages. I would
instead like to be able to load languages on demand (from an external
url) and store them on the sdcard.
Is that possible in any way? How could I in that case use the new
language?
The built-in resource system cannot use language files outside the APK.
That doesn't prevent you from rolling your own system, though.
Also, bear in mind that string resources are going to be compressed in the
APK file, so unless you have some insane number of strings (tens of
thousands), or lots of really long strings, I wouldn't expect size of the
APK to be a big concern.
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