Max size of an Android Application

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Ram G Athreya picture Ram G Athreya · Jan 24, 2014 · Viewed 54.3k times · Source

What is the maximum size for an Android Application that can be uploaded for Google Play? Is there some official resource or documentation for this? For example I see some games that are in GBs so is there an upward limit?

Answer

Satyaki Mukherjee picture Satyaki Mukherjee · Jan 24, 2014

Android Market raises maximum app size to 4GB, APK files still limited to 50MB

Please study these links, you will get your answer:

Android APK size limitation in Google Play

http://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files.html

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/05/android-market-4gb-app-limit/

Update (28 Sep 2015)

The Google Play team (ANDROID DEVELOPER BLOG) ::(GOOGLE) update the max size limit. They are increasing the APK file size limit to 100MB from 50MB. This means developers can publish APKs up to 100MB in size,Please refer this link for more information on Android Developer Blog

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