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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: getting in early... the android apk plan?Re: getting in early... the android apk plan?
From: Jonas Häggqvist <rasher_at_rasher.dk>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:11:18 +0200 On 11-08-2010 03:20, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > The test builds Thomas has been building are built with a single > librockbox.so which is for a single screen size. This file is about > 800kb and is very hard to update (impossible even?) without rebuilding > the whole apk. If we continue with this method then we either need to > setup an apk for each lcd size (yuck) or we build a separate > librockbox.so for each lcd size and have only the needed one loaded > (but all will be in the apk). This of course means a couple of MB > which isn't much but most people have very tight mobile data > allowances. The download size is listed on the market. If people are worried about their data allowance, they can install over wifi. I don't think we should be that worried about the size of the apk. > The other problem with this is when it comes time to do an update the > whole thing needs to be downloaded again. Do we want android to be the > only target which cant run the svn builds and users are forced to only > use the builds we push to the market (or make available on the site). I think it would be perfectly reasonable if the market contains only the latest release and we host snapshot apks on rockbox.org which people can install and update as they please. > The other option is not building the librockbox.so into the apk at all > but instead download it on first run, or try to load rockbox.zip from > the sdcard. This allows the user to use whichever build they want, it > means it can be integrated into the build system more simply, and we > only ever need to update the .apk when the java changes (or we use > that to try to force users onto the new releases). This seems like you want to completely bypass the market update mechanism. It doesn't sound right to me. -- Jonas Häggqvist rasher(at)rasher(dot)dkReceived on 2010-08-11 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |