Thursday, April 14, 2016

Android Games: APK vs APK + Data

Android games, a way to spend our leisure times. Android games are popular nowadays as many phones offer a better system and graphical processor. But there's a catch on some Android devices. As we all know, these games that installed from google play store specifically huge games like Mortal Kombat X, UFC, Call of Duty: Strike Team, and more needs a lot of internal storage space as the game data are installed on the phone storage which compromised the installation of other applications since the game utilizes larger space.

Today I will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of packed .apk games and separated apk and game data games.

The Disadvantages and Advantages of Single APK file and Separated Game Data

Advantages of .APK single file games

Below are just few elaborations of the benefits of having a packed into one game

One-click install
Combined, or single file apk games are ideal for every of Android smartphone users as we can just open and install it directly without any hassle moving data files.

Plug and play
When the games are finish you, can already play your favorite android games as you no longer needed to download the data files as it is packaged with the apk file.

Easy to backup
Since the game is just a single file, making a back-up file is relatively easy.

Disadvantages of .APK single file games

Below are just few enumerations of the cons of having a packed into one game

Storage space is depleted
When we install huge games with a huge file size, our internal storage space is depleted resulting to minimal apps can be installed

Few apps can be installed
With the storage spaces being caught up, we can never install huge files again unless you have a lot of storage space or partitioned your SD card for expanding your internal storage space. Nevertheless, having a huge file size games installed in your android phone limits you to install medium to big file size applications or games and gives you the only one option, install small-size file only.

Well, there are a lot of benefits and cons of it so I just pointed out the reasons which has an impact to the handsets.

Now, let's go over with single file apk and game data separated.

These options are very popular with games, especially huge games as it will give the user the best way to manage the game.

Below are the examples of pros of separated game and data.

Storage space not a problem
Since we have a separated game data, we could just use apps like Link2SD or FolderMount to link the game to the game data which is placed on the SD card. This is the best choice of device owners with small storage space.

Easy to download files
With not a bulky file size games, we can just download the game cache first, and second the game itself.

Disadvantages of Seperated game data, and game file

Below are the list of disadvantages of separated game and data.

Not easy to backup
Since the file is not compressed it is difficult to back up a separated game and game data as we undergo the process like compression so we will pack the files into one zip file.

Hassle setup
With the method itself "Separated", it involves a hassle process in which you will copy or move the game data itself to its right folder or directory

Not a plug and play
The opposite of the advantages of single file apk game. It's not really a plug and play setup as the second example talks about, it has to deal with moving and pasting the game files.

Conclusion:

Having single huge size games and separated game and data is just just a mere preference of users. If they have a lot of storage space, then opt in with single huge size games while you have a storage space crisis take on the separated game and data and just link it to install more applications on your device.

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