Google Play Developer Console has a limitation that doesn’t allow users to upload the APK file of more than 100 MB size. However, some android apps need more space for high-fidelity graphics, media files, or other large assets. Previously, if your app exceeded 100 MB, you had to host and download the additional resources yourself.
Make a zip folder of your assets like audio files, video files, images or anything you want to use in your app. Rename your zip file into below format.
[main/patch].<expansion-version>.<package-name>.obb
For example, your APK version is 1000 and your package name is com.example.app. If you upload a main expansion file, the file name should be main.1000.com.example.app.obb
When Google Play downloads your expansion files to a device, it saves them to the system’s shared storage location. The specific location for your expansion files is: /Android/obb//
When you download an app with expansion file from play store, your expansion file will be downloaded to ../Android/obb/main.1000.com.example.app.obb location.
In order to download the expansion files, the Downloader Library requires several permissions that you must declare in your application’s manifest file. They are:
<manifest ...>
<uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE" />
<!-- Required to download files from Google Play -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<!-- Required to keep CPU alive while downloading files
(NOT to keep screen awake) -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<!-- Required to poll the state of the network connection
and respond to changes -->
<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<!-- Required to check whether Wi-Fi is enabled -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>
<!-- Required to read and write the expansion files on shared storage -->
<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
...
</manifest>Zip_file library is used to extract your expansion file in your sdcard. Import it from below SDK path.
Below function is used to extract your expansion file using ZipHelper.java and create directory of extracted data from your expansion file.
public void ZipHelperNew() {
ZipResourceFile expansionFile = null;
try {
expansionFile = APKExpansionSupport.getAPKExpansionZipFile(
getApplicationContext(), versioncode, 0);
ZipEntryRO[] zip = expansionFile.getAllEntries();
Log.e("", "zip[0].isUncompressed() : " + zip[0].isUncompressed());
Log.e("","mFile.getAbsolutePath() : "+ zip[0].mFile.getAbsolutePath());
Log.e("", "mFileName : " + zip[0].mFileName);
Log.e("", "mZipFileName : " + zip[0].mZipFileName);
Log.e("", "mCompressedLength : " + zip[0].mCompressedLength);
String hallostring = zip[0].mFileName;
String asubstring = hallostring.substring(0, 40);
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/dirName");
ZipHelper.unzip(zip[0].mZipFileName, file);
if (file.exists()) {
Log.e("", "unzipped Success: " + file.getAbsolutePath());
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}public class ZipHelper {
static boolean zipError = false;
public static boolean isZipError() {
return zipError;
}
public static void setZipError(boolean zipError) {
ZipHelper.zipError = zipError;
}
public static void unzip(String archive, File outputDir) {
try {
Log.d("control", "ZipHelper.unzip() - File: " + archive);
ZipFile zipfile = new ZipFile(archive);
for (Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> e = zipfile.entries(); e
.hasMoreElements();) {
ZipEntry entry = (ZipEntry) e.nextElement();
unzipEntry(zipfile, entry, outputDir);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d("control", "ZipHelper.unzip() - Error extracting file "
+ archive + ": " + e);
setZipError(true);
}
}
private static void unzipEntry(ZipFile zipfile, ZipEntry entry,
File outputDir) throws IOException {
if (entry.isDirectory()) {
createDirectory(new File(outputDir, entry.getName()));
return;
}
File outputFile = new File(outputDir, entry.getName());
if (!outputFile.getParentFile().exists()) {
createDirectory(outputFile.getParentFile());
}
Log.d("control", "ZipHelper.unzipEntry() - Extracting: " + entry);
BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(
zipfile.getInputStream(entry));
BufferedOutputStream outputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream(outputFile));
try {
IOUtils.copy(inputStream, outputStream);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d("control", "ZipHelper.unzipEntry() - Error: " + e);
setZipError(true);
} finally {
outputStream.close();
inputStream.close();
}
}
private static void createDirectory(File dir) {
Log.d("control",
"ZipHelper.createDir() - Creating directory: " + dir.getName());
if (!dir.exists()) {
if (!dir.mkdirs())
throw new RuntimeException("Can't create directory " + dir);
} else
Log.d("control",
"ZipHelper.createDir() - Exists directory: "
+ dir.getName());
}
} String filePath = "/mnt/sdcard/dirName/";
File file = new File(filePath);
if (file.exists()) {
File fileCount = new File("/mnt/sdcard/dirName/);
File[] list = fileCount.listFiles();
for (File f : list) {
String name = f.getName();
if (name.endsWith(".jpg") || name.endsWith(".mp3") || name.endsWith(".mp4"))
Sdcardcount++;
}
}