✅ Solved Question concerning the publishing of APKs

[ScealcLigt]

Can I use a zip file when publishing apks?
In here, I really don't have unlimited cellular data, so compressing apks to a minimum would help me a lot.
To make things worse, I came in higher bills in cellular data since i started using sbenny, so if the staff finds a way to reduce this websites data consumption, it would be very great.

 

[Gourov]

You are talking about .apk or .apks to be specific ?

 

[ScealcLigt]

You are talking about .apk or .apks to be specific ?

Both of them, but for the moment, the software in question are .APK files

 

[Gourov]

Both of them, but for the moment, the software in question are .APK files

You can just extract the app first . Then zip it with Maximum compression then rename back from .zip to .apk .
If you got any parsing error or something . You can try applying zip alignment before extracting and after renaming zip to Apk.

 

[ScealcLigt]

Then I assume it will reduce the file size if the particular APK?

 

[Gourov]

Then I assume it will reduce the file size if the particular APK?

Depends of the compression provided by Devs.

 

[ScealcLigt]

So when I release apk files, I can use a zip file to reduce storage consuption?

 

[Gourov]

So when I release apk files, I can use a zip file to reduce storage consuption?

If you use the method I said it will be already highly compressed. No need to re zip again. And also zipping a already compressed file is not that useful.

 

[Sbenny]

We're talking about zipping an already zip file, which doesn't really give relevant advantages. An apk file is a compressed archive, already, so there's rarely benefit in re-compressing it.

By the way, our rules clearly specify this isn't allowed, due to the difficulties some users might find when trying to understand how to install it.

 

[Daniel]

Does Zip Aligning an Apk provide optimization?

 

[ScealcLigt]

We're talking about zipping an already zip file, which doesn't really give relevant advantages. An apk file is a compressed archive, already, so there's rarely benefit in re-compressing it.

By the way, our rules clearly specify this isn't allowed, due to the difficulties some users might find when trying to understand how to install it.

Hehe, thabk you for the requested answer.

 

[Eden]

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