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by kinlan 3679 days ago
The APK is downloaded and run on device.
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de_dave 3679 days ago
How does that work if the APK is huge (or bigger than a couple of megs at least)? That doesn't seem very "instant" to me...

Is the APK re-arranged perhaps so it can, in effect, "progressively" download the app as required?

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Fargren 3679 days ago
Yes, this is the idea.
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dogma1138 3679 days ago
That doesn't mean much half of the applications you install and run these days are just wrappers for web components where quite often the logic outside of the initialization is not in the app it self.
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