[android-developers] Re: Need help with an app with a lot of videos

You can store the videos on the SDCard. There is no way you can
package your app with all these videos, and during installation shift
these images to the SDCard. You have to put it on your servers, and
let the user download them, store them in the SDcard and carry on.

600 Mb is huge which I guess, the market itself will refuse while
submitting the app.

On Oct 22, 3:00 am, Greg W <pilotg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm writing an application that contains a lot of videos (~ 600 Mb).
> Obviously, this is too much to store in the device's application space
> and these videos need to be stored on the device's sdcard.  However,
> I'm trying to decide what is the best way to do this.
>
> I could put the videos on a web server and let the user download them
> as he views them or in the background as he's watching other videos.
> But ideally I'd like for the videos to be included in the application
> download from the market.  I'm not even sure if that's possible.
>
> One option would be to store the entire application on the sdcard,
> videos and all, but that would make the application only work on
> Android 2.2 and higher.
>
> Is there a way to specify resources in your Android project that will
> not be stored in the application space but instead stored on the
> sdcard?

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