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    <p>I was looking at the sidebar and saw <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10585025/image-size-best-practices-for-mobile-application">this</a> topic, but you're asking about patching when I saw the comments. </p> <p>The best way to make sure is that the user knows what to do with it. You want the user to download X file and have Y output for a different purpose. On the other hand, it appears common practice is that chunks of resources for those not native to the Android app and not able to fit in the APK. </p> <p>A comparable example is the JDIC apps, which use the popular Japanese resource that are in tandem used for English translations. JDIC apps like WWWJDIC use online downloads for the extremely large reference files that would otherwise have bad latency (which have been mentioned before) on Google servers. It's also bad rep to have >200 MB on Google apps unless it is 3D, which is justifiable. If your images cannot be compressed without extremely long loading times on the app itself, you may need to consider this option. The only downside is to request online connection (also mentioned before).</p> <p>Also, you could use 7zip and program Android to self-extract it to a location. <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Use-7Zip-to-Create-Self-Extracting-excutables" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.wikihow.com/Use-7Zip-to-Create-Self-Extracting-excutables</a></p> <p>On another note, it would be optimal for the user to perform routine checks on the app while having a one-time download on initial startup. You can then optionally put in an <code>AsyncTask</code> so that your files will be downloaded to the app and used after restart or however you want it, so you really need only one <code>AsyncTask</code>. The benefit of this is that the user syncs on the apps and he may need to check only once. The downside is that the user may not always be able to update and may need to use 4G or LTE, but that is a minor concern if he can use WiFi whenever he wants.</p>
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