Google announced yesterday a paradigm shift in its application store. Developers who once could send to the Android Market applications with up to 50 MB in size at most received an increase in the limit. Now they can provide applications with up to 4 GB. The reason for the increase in size of 80 times? Games.
According to what explains the team of engineers and product managers on the official blog of Android development, oo new limit was implemented because of the large amount of interactive 3D games, which take much more space than 50 MB. And to make clear the size of APKs must still be 50 MB, but developers will be able to add 2 expansion files to them (each with 2 GB maximum) and will be automatically downloaded with the original application.
Before that you probably already know what happened if you were one of the buyers of more stocky Androids coming with embedded games: When you open the game, he connected on the web to download the rest of the data server directly from the company that distributes the game. Now these expansions can be downloaded directly from Google's servers, which will host the applications.
In contrast, Apple's app store limits the size of applications to 2 GB (according to developers, Apple said nothing about it). Have the store of Windows Phone, nobody knows, nobody saw, the limit is 225 MB per application.
According to what explains the team of engineers and product managers on the official blog of Android development, oo new limit was implemented because of the large amount of interactive 3D games, which take much more space than 50 MB. And to make clear the size of APKs must still be 50 MB, but developers will be able to add 2 expansion files to them (each with 2 GB maximum) and will be automatically downloaded with the original application.
Before that you probably already know what happened if you were one of the buyers of more stocky Androids coming with embedded games: When you open the game, he connected on the web to download the rest of the data server directly from the company that distributes the game. Now these expansions can be downloaded directly from Google's servers, which will host the applications.
In contrast, Apple's app store limits the size of applications to 2 GB (according to developers, Apple said nothing about it). Have the store of Windows Phone, nobody knows, nobody saw, the limit is 225 MB per application.
