until recently , for too large apps (50+ MB apps) you had to use your own server to host the large files and add your own logic on the app to download and handle the file from the server.
on March 5th 2012 , google published of a new way to host your large files (via the android market , which is now called “android play” ) , so apps can reach up to 4GB of size:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/03/android-apps-break-50mb-barrier.html
it has its limitations and rules , but it’s free and i think everyone should consider using it.
my question is : is there any nice tutorial , including sample project , that i can do the minimal changes in order to make it work with my app ? maybe someone has already tested it and would be able to share a sample project?
i’ve tried to read what they wrote there , and it seems that for every thing i read , there is another link to read from , and in the end i didn’t understand the full step-by-step process that i need to go over in order to create a working project.
It’s not exactly a tutorial, in that it doesn’t give you line-by-line code to create a complete application, but the Developers Guide article on APK Expansion Files contains a quite detailed checklist of things to do.