Too much pictures

Stefan_Fries · April 4, 2020, 5:15am

Hello
I want to make a game in which I upload all countries of the world as png in 5 different colors. There are approx. 1000 files with only 1kB each, so that I do not exceed the 5mB of the AppInventor2 maximum size.
Now I get the error message:
Reflecting exception for userid 116525354425060981481 projectId 6573853068886016, original exception java.lang.RuntimeException: com.google.appengine.tools.cloudstorage.SimpleGcsInputChannelImpl$1@471a924d: Unexpected cause of ExecutionException.

Is there another possibility (possibly with an example) how I can use a lot of pictures in a game?

best regards
Stefan

TIMAI2 · April 4, 2020, 9:39am

It will take you ages to upload each image one at a time!

Here is an alternative:

Or download the images on first run:

Stefan_Fries · April 4, 2020, 10:02am

Hi, thanks for help.
I actually work with APK Editor Studio. My App is only 3MB.
After APK Editor round about 200MB.
I think the problem ist not the 5mB limit. The problem is to many files.
I try your hint with the first run and see what happend…

Stefan

Stefan_Fries · April 4, 2020, 10:04am

Sorry, is it possible to get a aia from download the image on first run?
Thanks for your help

Stefan

TIMAI2 · April 4, 2020, 10:07am

Please explain what you mean ?

Also, the tutorial was really just to show how you could insert many files into your app at once!

Anke · April 4, 2020, 10:47am

The max size of a project (aia) in AI2 is 10MB.
see here (number of files in the assets): Redirecting to Google Groups
try this server: http://code.appinventor.mit.edu/
try this approach: How to build a big app → APK max. 100 MB or → AAB 150 MB

The last point will surely work for you too. All my apps are created this way.
Some of my apps contain more than 500 audio files, images, ... in the assets.