Problems with Game Development on Android 2.0

[New2u]

They are working on a way to get the apps to install on the external and still keep the security. Which in concept wouldn't be too hard, but i know in actual application, it quite harder then it seems.

[ToddP0530]

I had a storm1 with 128mb of memory and I was able to have every application I needed installed on it. Now, the droid (as well as storm2) comes with 256mb of memory and the RIM OS is a memory hog. Droid is not. I am not worried about memory issues with droid. Former storm owners, imagine if you have 6 apps at once running in the background of that phone. The phone would've had an aneurysm. Droid can do that and still fly.

[bamfsig45]

This is a non issue for me, Im not buying this phone as a gaming platform, there are much better portable options for that. Sure I'll want the time wasting games like a brick breaker or Tetris type game but I wont be looking to play some 3d graphics intensive game or whatever. My 16 gb card will be filled with Music and Movies. If in the future the mem card slot gets opened for game/app installs I may try it out but my phone is used for other things.

[mth04]

I had a storm1 with 128mb of memory and I was able to have every application I needed installed on it. Now, the droid (as well as storm2) comes with 256mb of memory and the RIM OS is a memory hog. Droid is not. I am not worried about memory issues with droid. Former storm owners, imagine if you have 6 apps at once running in the background of that phone. The phone would've had an aneurysm. Droid can do that and still fly.

I totally agree. For instance the S2 has 256mb as you mentioned. Yet it only boots with about 120mb's available . Now there's a great OS huh

[rushmore]

Average game is about 3 megs, since the app size does not always mean that is the size when installed.

The better games like Jewellust are 9 megs installed.

I agree that devs should allow the option to install 99% of the app to SD, so just the encrypted executable is on the device.

Problem is almost all devs force you to install to the device and apparently there are technical reasons with Android framework that forces some apps to use only the device memory.

One big negative though is the 16gb card the Droid has is a slower class 2. Better performance with class 6, but that means of course buying one.

Hey, at least you have about 230 megs to install apps. My G1 has 75 megs

[Remnever]

I have read in other forums that you only install the app on your internal drive but all of its contents go to the sd card? Anyway I also read that some developers are working on an app that will instead instead the apps on your sd card. I believe similar apps have already been released for other Android phones. I assume you will need to root your phone before you can do this though.

[rushmore]

Root only helps for apps2sd which makes the OS think it is device memory (virtual space), so current apps work with it.

Android's framework and SDK forces some apps to use that memory, so some devs hands are tied. Depends on the app if most can be on the card. It is a performance issue more than anything.

One thing is pretty clear though. Droid has a slow class 2 card installed. If Android had any long term plans of allowing apps2sd as part of the OS, they would have put a class 6 card in the Droid. If you are just playing media class 2 is fine. Just depends on the data being transferred otherwise.

16gb card is about $50 on the web.

[Varking]

This is a non issue for me, Im not buying this phone as a gaming platform, there are much better portable options for that. Sure I'll want the time wasting games like a brick breaker or Tetris type game but I wont be looking to play some 3d graphics intensive game or whatever. My 16 gb card will be filled with Music and Movies. If in the future the mem card slot gets opened for game/app installs I may try it out but my phone is used for other things.

I am not purchasing the phone for the gaming itself but it is a nice perk to play my old SNES games on it when I have the lady dragging me around places I don't care to be.