How do you create expansion APKs with Gideros?

Tom2012

I've checked this page:

http://giderosmobile.com/DevCenter/index.php/APK_Expansion_Files

I had some questions based on the steps...

1) Export your Eclipse project. 3) Goto to the assets/assets folder, select the big files and directories and create create an uncompressed .zip file <-- How do you create an uncompressed zip file?

Thanks

Tom

ar2rsawseen

1) yes export eclipse project from Gideros
2) depends on your OS and archiving software. For me on Windows I use winrar, so I just right click on file (or files) and select archive, select zip and compression level store (no compression)

pie

@Tom2012 I never did that, but I'd say:

1) yes - in your exported project dir you can find the assets/assets path

3) I think there should be a no-compression "compression method" to choose in your compressor, like in a base tar file: in WinRar it is called Store
[edit: Arturs was faster ]

Tom2012

Thank you guys

Hmm seems there's no way to do this on Mac. Will have to swap over to PC and try WinRar.

pie

@Tom2012 I found this on google but I don't have a Mac to try:

Create zip without compression on OS X from Terminal:
zip -r0 zipfilename.zip files-to-zip

Tom2012

Thanks very kindly Pie! I've stopped being lazy and jumped onto my PC. Winrar did the job perfectly.

I've created a ZIP from my large assets. As I understand it, this .zip file IS the expansion file.

Am I correct in thinking that as far as expansion files go, there's no further coding required within Gideros?

I looked at this page http://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files.html and almost decided to opt out of the Play store it was so long!