On 31/10/14 17:53, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Probably too late to talk about how to package your data, which is likely the
reason it is so big. I suspect it contains a lot of images or other kinds of
media.
You might consider however, packaging your media separately from the
application itself, then have the app on launch begin to sync the media from a
web server. If that is impractical, then I would say a password protected zip
file, where the password is the license key (if you have implemented one).
It used to be in ages gone by that zip files were broken up into smaller pieces
because modem transport of large files was inherently unreliable. These days
it’s rare that a download will fail due to the transport. I wouldn’t do
multipart zips if you can help it, unless your target market is Botswana where
they are still using 14.4 modems. ;-)
Bob S
I wonder if what you have written isn't a tad discriminatory?
http://testmy.net/country/bw Botswana Average Download Speed: 876 Kbps
(110 kB/s)
Botswana Average Upload Speed: 127 Kbps (16 kB/s)
Bulgaria Average Download Speed: BG average 9 Mbps
Bulgaria Average Upload Speed: BG average 4.7 Mbps
That DOES make Botswana look fairly crappy . . .
But I wonder what sort of speeds one would get with a 14.4 modem?
Certainly my one in Carbondale, Illinois, USE (1993) took 5 hours to
download 2 MB!
Richmond.
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