qroft
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4 years ago [UPDATE] I removed all the images and build the app - everything is fine. After searching around i tried this solution:
- created my app-unsigned.apk (approx. 5MB, without images)
- renamed that apk to app-unsigned.zip and opend it
- moved all my images inside that zip folder and closed 7zip
- the now 2.8GB big file is called app-unsigned.zip
- renamed it back to app-unsigned.apk
When i now try to zipalign -v 4 app-unsigned.zip hello.apk i get this error: Unable to open 'app-unsigned.apk' as zip archive
What i now have found out: zipalign does not like files bigger than 2gb :(
I can not create my app as it contains thousands (!) of images (approx. 2.8GB in total ) and the build process stops by informing me that it has a Java Heap Space problem. For the last days i have read everything about Java Heap Space and added several gradle.properties files to my projcect's root, sub folder Android etc. but the strange thing is that even with these files inside, the Phonegpa ClI shows me this info:
Running command: cmd "/s /c "C:\phonegaps\remgif\platforms\android\gradlew.bat cdvBuildRelease -b C:\phonegaps\remgif\platforms\android\build.gradle -Dorg.gradle.daemon=true -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m""
So even if i change the Xmx to 4g (my PC has 8 GB of RAM), the command "phonegap build -release android -d" always seems to use the 2048MB
As soon as i delete three folders with hundreds of images inside, the APK is created. So i am wondering is this is a RAM or APK max size problem !?
PhoneGap CLI, node & npm versions
Phonegap 8.2.2. Node 8.11.3 NPM 6.10.0
Expected Behaviour
APK gets build
Actual Behaviour
Build stopped due to "Java Heap Space" fail
Steps to Reproduce
phonegap build -release android
Sample Code that illustrates the problem
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