I have built a PhoneGap application and put all of my image files into my www folder so my users will not have to download them over their cell phone data connection. However, when I build my app it is 176mb and the Google Play store maximum is 50mb in the primary file. Google says we can split our files into expansion .apk files to get beyond 50mb but there doesn't seem to be any internal Adobe support for this. I've read here about a cordova plugin to support accessing expansion apks but it doesn't appear to support the cross platform builds I need to support. What are my options here? I'm a paid Creative Cloud member but I can't seem to find anywhere else to submit this question except for here.
Ben Holmes
Ben Holmes
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you can delete your app and bulid new app on build sites . i see you just upload the zip folder again and again same app so app size increase
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Dear Ben
We have yet to implement such automation for creating .oob (expansion packs) on PhoneGap Build. You might need to watch the following feature request and comment/vote as needed.
https://github.com/phonegap/build/issues/433
Anyway the following article could help with the process (Need to modify as necessary for PhoneGap Build)
https://iphonedevlog.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/adding-an-android-apk-expansion-file-to-a-cordova-proj...
Sorry about that.
We have yet to implement such automation for creating .oob (expansion packs) on PhoneGap Build. You might need to watch the following feature request and comment/vote as needed.
https://github.com/phonegap/build/issues/433
Anyway the following article could help with the process (Need to modify as necessary for PhoneGap Build)
https://iphonedevlog.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/adding-an-android-apk-expansion-file-to-a-cordova-proj...
Sorry about that.
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I've added my comment to the github issue and suggest those below who want this as well to do the same. My bigger concern is complete compatibility between Apple Apps and Android apps. I really really don't want to maintain two sets of code as my app uses html
links on the server to reference my photos. The plugin cordova-plugin-xapkreader does not seem to also support the Apple side as well for adding "content://com.test.expansion/" to your image links. I'm pretty sure doing that would completely mess up the apple usage side. I'm beginning to think I won't be able to pre-install all of my images for Android users and force them to download them during usage... Which also breaks my single code model I've been striving for.
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Yes this would be an added extra bonus... But so far i can't even get the xapkreader plugins out there working. But for phonegap build to sort something out in which we only have to upload one set of code for both apple and android would be fantastic!
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And just when i thought it couldnt get any worse... They've just gone and done this... Suprise after suprise..Thanks for nothing PHONECRAP!
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The available xapkreader feature is full off it... can't even get it to work whatever I try.
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Nope. Nothing new on my front. I ended up manually compiling everything instead of using the build environment
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