Android and Protocol Buffers?

I know it's not a direct answer to your question, but an extra 30kb doesn't sound that bad to me. Even on EDGE that'll only take an extra 1 to 2 seconds to download. And memory is tight on android, but not THAT tight -- 30 kb is only about 1/10th of one percent of the available application memory space.

Well, I guess the issue was that practically doubles the application size. Just something that was a bit unappealing. – kwogger Nov 26 '09 at 23:20.

I'm taking this to mean "to using protocol buffers", rather than "for using protocol buffers with an Android application". I apologise if you are already commited to protocol buffers. This site is about "comparing serialization performance and other aspects of serialization libraries on the JVM".

You'll find many alternatives listed there. While there is no mention of the memory footprint of the different implementations at the moment I am sure it is a metric which the people on the wiki would be interested in.

Thanks, not what I was looking for, but useful information nonetheless. – kwogger Dec 4 '09 at 21:36.

Use ProGuard1 on your project. It will reduce the size of jars included in APK file. 1 developer.android.com/guide/developing/t....

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