Expansion files

Android allows 2 expansions files each 2 GB,So how to set those up
Does apple allow expansion files
And how does the user first download the apk and then the other 2 expansion files

Do textures use ram memory or system memory

 

you can download asset bundles or similar with ios after installing

mobile devices usually have only one runtime memory area available that is shared with everything in your app

 

so apple allows expansion files

 

Android has expansion files because the initial APK limit is 50mb. The expansion files allow for larger game sizes, and the Google Play store will host those for you. Apple doesn't need expansion files because they already have a large download limit.

Downloading additional content after the game is first run is something different than what Google calls expansion files. In fact, before Google introduced expansion files, it's how larger games were delivered to Android devices. Both companies allow this, yes. But they will not host them for you and all of the code to download them will be your responsibility.

However, again, I must caution against making a game that big at this stage of your learning. Mobile is an extraordinarily hard market to break into, and customers are very sensitive to game size. If they download a 2gb IPA that expands to 3gb or so, and then you want to install more on top of that, they are not going to be happy campers unless the game is far more stunning in content and graphics quality than a beginner is capable of. 3gb on a 16gb iPhone 6 will take up around 20% of their available space. That's like putting a 200gb desktop game on a 1tb hard drive.

 

Yeah he has been warned several times about too big app size in various threads

I guess he knows by now that anything above 100mb will not be available for non-wifi users on iOS to download so that alone cuts whole bunch of users and even with wifi 1-2gb is a lot unless the game is known.

 

Yeah yeah

 

So I will need what to do dat? A website

 

IPA is only for iOS,I will have to compress my 3.5 gb game to 2 gb
and for android there are expansion files?
So Its possible to make a 3.5 gb game

 

You will need a website, or some other way to host the files. I don't know whether your 3.5 gb game will compress down to 2gb. It depends on what the content is and how compressible it is. You can probably shave that much off. Like IPAs, APKs are also compressed, so if you get it down to 2gb on iOS, you should be able to get it under 4 on Android easily.

 

Thanks

 

Not to mention that those sizes would pretty much eliminate using free sources of WiFi. Hopefully people will look at the size of the game before purchasing it, but I suspect there will be people who won't and will be upset over the size.