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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Mobile Use Testing

By Jason L. Beanster


Mostly 50 MB sizes are enough for any kind of android applications. One of the widely recognized android game Angry Birds Rio has the file size of 19 MB. However there are a few varieties of apps e.g. high-quality 3D interactive games having more advanced 3-D graphics, audio, and video which requires more resources.

Before I proceed, It should be clear that Android apps have been free to go faster the size and style limit (50 MB) earlier also; having said that designers had to host the data on their own.

Conventionally, when user attempt to find such larger in size apps or game from Android market, after downloading the core app, user is urged to deploy supplementary files to complete the download. These additional files had to be hosted by developers.

Evidently the file size of these additional files (which is often in GB'S) were not regarded while showing the app size of that game/app on Android Market.

Hence frequently a user may feel fooled as regards to app/game of 10 MB (as per app size shown in android market) we must install additional 1-2 GB of this particular data after installing the core apk.

Yet downloading this extra data were often linking to expiry of the refund time. (Google presents a 15 min Refund window for paid apps. Whenever you download an app and you uninstall within 15 mins, you're free to automatically have the refund with regards to your purchased price.

Nevertheless for a more substantial apps or games, downloading the excess data were often linking to expiry of that refund time as downloading with this additional data may takes several minutes.)

What's Great Now immediately after this update? As Google has increased the Android app size limit from 50 MB to 4GB to share in Android Market, these additional data files will now be hosted on Google's server and designers will not have to have these supplemental files on their own expenditures on some third party server.

As there will be far less control on the app size, we can to have some more superb high quality application in Android Market. As most of that data can be totally integrated into the APK and the expansion file, user will be able to see the full size of the app in Android Market before purchasing and downloading it.

Most Interestingly, unlike earlier, the refund window will commence only if you have installed all the files. For Most newer devices, the expansion files will be promptly located when you download the core app from android market. Notwithstanding for previous devices Google will give you a downloaded library (developer tool) to download the expansion file. In short this update from Google is beneficial for both Developers and Users.




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