Question about game file sizes

gilly78201 · 12-16-2011, 03:03 AM

hey everyone, I own an ipod touch 8g, so I learned all about different file sizes when downloading games, I know not to download large games, I downloaded fast five, and it took have my space up..LOL but I've noticed with android, its a different story, I went to one of the sideloading game sites, and found these 2 for example, Angry birds was 18.8MB, and Brothers In Arms was 2.6MB, now Brothers in arms graphics alone tell me, its larger than Angry Birds, but I cant figure out those file sizes.

Ticallion · 12-16-2011, 04:11 AM

Some games download more data when you first try to play them, which can be quite annoying. I'm sure Brothers in Arms, as most 3D Android games I've noticed, will download more files to your device when you go to run it. It probably won't work/side load on the KF though as it'll try to redirect to the Amazon app store and they don't have that game, so you'd receive an error.

grvthang · 12-16-2011, 09:09 AM

It's a good idea to read as many reviews as possibile before deciding whether to install a game. the reviewers will tell you things the developer (and Amazon) won't.

I'm not much of a gamer, but I wanted to put a few good action games on my Fire. I saw an auto rack.g game, Asphalt 6, that got greatreviews. The size wasn't too big, so I bought it and installed it.

When i went to open it and play it, it told me that I had to download and install another 512mb of data!! Nowhere in the App Store's description was this mentioned.

gilly78201 · 12-16-2011, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grvthang

It's a good idea to read as many reviews as possibile before deciding whether to install a game. the reviewers will tell you things the developer (and Amazon) won't.

I'm not much of a gamer, but I wanted to put a few good action games on my Fire. I saw an auto rack.g game, Asphalt 6, that got greatreviews. The size wasn't too big, so I bought it and installed it.

When i went to open it and play it, it told me that I had to download and install another 512mb of data!! Nowhere in the App Store's description was this mentioned.

yea, same here. but I went ahead and downloaded it anyway..lol thanks for the tip

obsessed2 · 12-16-2011, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grvthang

I'm not much of a gamer, but I wanted to put a few good action games on my Fire. I saw an auto rack.g game, Asphalt 6, that got greatreviews. The size wasn't too big, so I bought it and installed it.

When i went to open it and play it, it told me that I had to download and install another 512mb of data!! Nowhere in the App Store's description was this mentioned.

The Fire storage is basically partitioned for Internal and External Storage.

The App itself is installed to Internal Storage which is 1.09 GB (Most Apps are installed here).

Most Android Apps are on the order of a few hundred KB, with some all the way to about 15 - 20 MB. App developers that are App storage conscious will make their App installs very small and place App data in external storage instead.

To put this into perspective, take the game Dead Space for example. Only the Dead Space App is installed on the App partition in Android. The App itself only uses 316 KB of App Storage! However, the game data is installed on the larger External Storage (aka SD Card) partition (5.0 GB on the Fire) and the App fetches it from there.

grvthang · 12-19-2011, 12:18 AM

So if the Fire is partitioned to have both app storage space and 'external' space, I take it that you can use a 'move to sd card' Android utility to move apps to the 'external' partition if you want (or need)?

jduck · 12-19-2011, 08:45 AM

I have read of a lot of people saying they could NOT get a 'move to sd card' utility to work on the Fire, and none saying they COULD get it to work. I tried that function in Gemini app manager and it didn't seem to do anything, but I could very well have done something wrong... So if you can figure it out, please report back here :-)

obsessed2 · 12-19-2011, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grvthang

So if the Fire is partitioned to have both app storage space and 'external' space, I take it that you can use a 'move to sd card' Android utility to move apps to the 'external' partition if you want (or need)?

A small portion of the Fire's App storage is reserved for A2SD. I haven't tried an Apps2SD App however, a lot of newer Apps will automatically take advantage of external App storage if available. Please see this thread for a complete breakdown of the Fire's storage resources (post #19): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=159388&page=2

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12-16-2011, 03:03 AM	#1
gilly78201 Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kindle fire	Question about game file sizes hey everyone, I own an ipod touch 8g, so I learned all about different file sizes when downloading games, I know not to download large games, I downloaded fast five, and it took have my space up..LOL but I've noticed with android, its a different story, I went to one of the sideloading game sites, and found these 2 for example, Angry birds was 18.8MB, and Brothers In Arms was 2.6MB, now Brothers in arms graphics alone tell me, its larger than Angry Birds, but I cant figure out those file sizes.

12-16-2011, 04:11 AM	#2
Ticallion Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle PW	Some games download more data when you first try to play them, which can be quite annoying. I'm sure Brothers in Arms, as most 3D Android games I've noticed, will download more files to your device when you go to run it. It probably won't work/side load on the KF though as it'll try to redirect to the Amazon app store and they don't have that game, so you'd receive an error.

12-16-2011, 09:09 AM	#3
grvthang Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 53472 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Brooklyn NY Device: Kindle Fire, Droid Incredible2, Kindle Touch	It's a good idea to read as many reviews as possibile before deciding whether to install a game. the reviewers will tell you things the developer (and Amazon) won't. I'm not much of a gamer, but I wanted to put a few good action games on my Fire. I saw an auto rack.g game, Asphalt 6, that got greatreviews. The size wasn't too big, so I bought it and installed it. When i went to open it and play it, it told me that I had to download and install another 512mb of data!! Nowhere in the App Store's description was this mentioned.

12-19-2011, 12:18 AM	#6
grvthang Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 53472 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Brooklyn NY Device: Kindle Fire, Droid Incredible2, Kindle Touch	So if the Fire is partitioned to have both app storage space and 'external' space, I take it that you can use a 'move to sd card' Android utility to move apps to the 'external' partition if you want (or need)?

12-19-2011, 08:45 AM	#7
jduck Connoisseur Posts: 62 Karma: 2282 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: kindle Fire	I have read of a lot of people saying they could NOT get a 'move to sd card' utility to work on the Fire, and none saying they COULD get it to work. I tried that function in Gemini app manager and it didn't seem to do anything, but I could very well have done something wrong... So if you can figure it out, please report back here :-)

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