Maximum package size

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• imaginaryhuman Posts: 55Member

  February 2013

  Given you have 512mb of ram to use in-game, it sort of suggests you'd want to be able to in some cases store hundreds of megs of textures or whatever.. so I sort of doubt there is a limit?
• arcticdog Posts: 235Member

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  What the system supports in RAM and how much OUYA is willing to store are two different concerns.  Your assertion makes sense, but all of the app stores impose install package limits to some capacity.  For example, until recently, XBLIG had a really small app size requirement (compared to what could be stored in memory).

  
  

  These limits usually have more to do with ongoing hosting costs and bandwidth than capabilities of the devices.  

  
  

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• Dreamwriter Posts: 768Member

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  I dunno about Android, but Apple has never had any limits based on hosting costs or bandwidth. Their limitation was based on cell phone providers - AT&T didnt want their cell towers flooded by huge downloads. On iOS devices, if you use wifi to download an app (instead of phone data) there are no limits whatsoever on app size.

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• arcticdog Posts: 235Member

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  Apple also charges a $99 annual fee.  Your hosting costs are probably baked into that (and subsidized for those that under-utilize it)

  
  

  And there is a max size.  It's comparable to Google Play.

  
  

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4753100/max-size-of-an-ios-application
  

  
  

  
  

  Post edited by arcticdog on February 2013