[Solved] Reducing apk size for a difference game (to allow incremental downloads)

Question

I’d personally rather download that 10MB once and for all instead of downloading those additional images every time I play the game; it could be expensive to download all that data. You could of course cache them, so I don’t have to download them again. And you could foreward-download an entire level of images at a time (level2.zip). But what if I suddenly beat my own high score and proceed to a new level … and I don’t have a very good internet connection at that particular moment? If you’re ruining my gaming experience, I’ll delete your app and give it a bad review immediately — and so will everyone else =)

I’d definitely recommended adding all data and not depend on the user having a fast internet connection AND is willing to pay for the download.

If you app grows too big, you should look into expansion files, but I havne’t used those myself so I can’t tell much more than the link:
https://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files.html

Accepted Answer

I’d personally rather download that 10MB once and for all instead of downloading those additional images every time I play the game; it could be expensive to download all that data. You could of course cache them, so I don’t have to download them again. And you could foreward-download an entire level of images at a time (level2.zip). But what if I suddenly beat my own high score and proceed to a new level … and I don’t have a very good internet connection at that particular moment? If you’re ruining my gaming experience, I’ll delete your app and give it a bad review immediately — and so will everyone else =)

I’d definitely recommended adding all data and not depend on the user having a fast internet connection AND is willing to pay for the download.

If you app grows too big, you should look into expansion files, but I havne’t used those myself so I can’t tell much more than the link:
https://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files.html