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Curious about APK size of games made in love
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:18 pm
by laperen
Not particularly free at the moment so I haven't had time to research on how export .love into an APK.
So if anyone has observed, what is the general APK size of games made in love?
or the size of an empty project and how assets contribute to the APK size?
thanks in advance
Re: Curious about APK size of games made in love
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:43 pm
by desman
armeabi = 2.04 MB
armeabi-v7a = 1.94 MB
x86 = 2.63 MB
I strongly recommend only to use armeabi and/or x86 (most ASUS devices). There are still so many cheap chinese phones (about 26-80 USD such as Mito, Advan, Huawei, Oppo, Evercoss, etc) running Android 4.0 that doesn't support ARMv7 and only has 256-512MB of RAM.
Re: Curious about APK size of games made in love
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:39 pm
by laperen
Is that for the general size of a love APK or an empty project?
Re: Curious about APK size of games made in love
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:03 pm
by desman
empty project of love android apk
Re: Curious about APK size of games made in love
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 6:46 am
by laperen
been using the StartGameDev tool which outputs an APK from a .love file.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=80513
The tool has made it remarkably easy to get my .love project into android, but APK size is 4mb. While I'm still happy with the result, I'm wondering what's causing the APK size to be larger than the above projected APK size? Or was the estimate wrong?
Re: Curious about APK size of games made in love
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 5:39 am
by bobbyjones
The apks my server makes are 4mb as well.
http://builds.bobbyjones.me
Re: Curious about APK size of games made in love
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:24 am
by desman
You need to choose either "armeabi" or "armeabi-v7a". Each make 2MB, and both 4MB. It's redundant to include both.