Why does my app size on device differ than the APK or play?

Why does my app size on device differ than the APK or play?

This is not to do with Google Play enabled copy protection (as other similar questions sugget) as I get the same stats installing the signed APK or development APK. The APK on the phone under /data/app is again 3.8MB and the files under /data/data/com.my.app come to another 100KB or so (presumably the ‘Data’ row above).

Why are iso file sizes different in different OS?

Why would ISO file sizes be different in different OS? Windows assumes that there are 1024 Bytes in a Kilobyte unit, and 1024 Kilobytes in a Megabyte unit. While Ubuntu assumes, a 1000 bytes constitute a Kilobyte (KB) unit, 1000 Kilobytes for a Megabyte (MB) and so on.

Why do file sizes change between windows and Mac?

The Notepad application in Windows is known for its poor text wrapping (which it makes up for by being a good tool for coding, for the same reason), with the user/writer needing to feed its own carriage returns in the text, when Wordpad is more user-friendly, with better text wrapping, but doesn’t show the same flexibility that Notepad has.

Why does Robocopy report a file as changed?

To check my scripts were working, I ran the robocopy commands again and to my surprised, robocopy reported that it was copying a lot of files again and reporting them as “Changed”. Robocopy classes a file as changed if the date & time are the same but the file size is different.

What’s the difference between Google Play Store and Android Market?

Differences in size are noticeable when comparing between Android markets, one shows one size and play store shows completely different size. The Google play store, and other app stores, only list the main application (APK) size, not the total app size, which includes the OBB (Opaque Binary Blob) expansion files.

How are apps listed in the Google Play Store?

The Google play store, and other app stores, only list the main application (APK) size, not the total app size, which includes the OBB (Opaque Binary Blob) expansion files. OBBs are the extra files that an app downloads to run.

How big is my APK on my PC?

My signed release APK size on my PC comes in at 3.8MB. Uploading to Google Play shows a similiar size. Looking at the app manager on the device however shows the following stats: This is not to do with Google Play enabled copy protection (as other similar questions sugget) as I get the same stats installing the signed APK or development APK.