[Interest] Very large QRC file

Jason H jhihn at gmx.com
Wed Mar 23 17:31:28 CET 2016


> Op 23/03/2016 om 16:57 schreef Jason H:
> > Not sure. This is an app for a tablet, I've always packaged assets in qrc, because it "just worked". I could try DISTFILES, but I'm unsure how that work on mobile platforms.
> Please don't. Don't fill your users' devices with assets they are not 
> going to use, like video or audio for different languages. It doesn't 
> scale. Instead, get the right contents for your application on demand 
> when first requested, so you only store on the users device what the 
> user actually needs.

Normally, I would agree with you, but we are deploying the app to connectivity-limited areas. We get one shot to load the tablet.  Not everywhere on the planet has it as good as the western world.




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