[casual_games] Question about iphone game development

[Tom Park]

I have to agree that the DRM does add a little to the zip file, usually
about 0.1 or 0.2 MB.

Definitely NOT 4MB, not even when comparing unzipped .ipa files.


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Chris Dillman <chrisd at plaidworld.com>wrote:


> It is true Tom

>>

>> The majority of our iPhone apps are sub 10M (some are even 6M compressed),

>> and none of them is sub 10M on the App Store.

>>

>> When we asked Apple about this inconsistency, they explained that the

>> extra code is from their own encryption added before compressing it again

>> (a.k.a DRM).

>>

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> Finder reports..

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> Mouse House Lite 1.1.4

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> Raw = 10.66 MB ... OR 10,442,581 BYTES

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> Zipped = 9 OR 9,401,408 BYTES

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> App store IPA... itunes says its 9.3

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> Finder actually reports 9.3 and 9,705,884 BYTES

>

> So I see at least a small increase in a non unity app mostly consisting of

> PNG, WAV, MP3 files and Text data.

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