Just in case those of you
out there with older devices weren't alienated enough by Ice Cream
Sandwich and its hatred of devices with small internal storage capacity,
Google is now effectively telling you that if you don't upgrade soon,
you're not going to be able to do anything on your device. Today, Google
increased the app size limit for the Android Market.
The
old limit had been 50MB, and now Google has boosted that limit all the
way to an absurd 4GB limit. This is mostly targeted towards games, where
the extra space will allow for bigger games with better texture packs
for higher quality graphics. This should also end the awful process of
downloading a game only to have to then download a 1GB+ data pack in
order to play said game. However, with the new limits, apps will also be
able to have 2 expansion packs of up to 2 GB each.
Of
course, if those data packs were to go away, that will kill
compatibility of larger games with devices with small internal storage,
regardless of if you have an SD card, because your device still needs
the internal space to start the install process, even when installing to
an SD card. But, the good news for devs is that Google now hosts all of
that data, so you don't have to worry as much about server costs.
Still, it should make for some pretty nice games.
source: Android Developer Blog
1 Comment:
oh that's great
Post a Comment