Zipalign

[Javier]

I just finished my app and I was about to publish it in the store. But when I uploaded the apk it says taht I need to zipalign the apk

Any suggestions?

[Jan-Dirk]

Javier,

I think you can ignore that. At least, I can't remember that I zipaligned my apk's before uploading them to Google Play.

Here is something to read about zipalign:http://developer.android.com/tools/help/zipalign.html

[Javier]

Thank you,I just zipaligned my app. In the new version of the google developers console its necessary to zipalign the app, in the old version of the google developers console thats not necessary, but well I  did it manually

But thanks for your answer =)

[Evgeni "Zammy" Petrov]

Hi  Javier,

As JD has said you can ship your application without zipaligning it. It is supposed to increase the performance of your application if it has a lot of uncompressed resources. (Uncompressed audio for example or plain text files). 

If you want to zipalign it,  I have included the command line utility that is used for the job. Simply write in command line "zipalign 4 <<name of apk>>.apk zip_aligned.apk". There will be zip_aligned.apk file in the folder where you have run the command.

We also are going to add a story in our backlog for this feature. Seems that people will prefer to have their google play apks zipaligned.
 

Greetings,
Evgeni "Zammy" Petrov
the Telerik team

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[Javier]

Thank for your reply. I just uploaded the app zipaligned :)

[Dan]

zipalign.exe opens for just a split second then closes.. I have tried right click and run as administrator ..still wont stay open. 

[Jordan]

Hello Javier,

you have to run zipalign.exe from command line with parameters not to start it.

Like this:

Kind regards,
Jordan
the Telerik team

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