[Monodroid] Monodroid Digest, Vol 8, Issue 3

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Balog László wrote:
> How many space need the runtime install?

For development (debugging) or for end-user user (no debugging)?

If you want to do debugging, you'll need the Mono.Android.DebugRuntime package (18MB), Mono.Android.Platform support for a specific API level (~13MB), and your actual application (a few hundred KB or more, depending on the app). Thus, for development purposes, you're looking at a minimum of ~32MB needed to get started.

For the end user and for redistribution we support a "static" runtime and assembly linking, which brings the above ~32MB down to ~4MB for a "Hello, World"-stye application; see:

	http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/private/monodroid/2011-February/003242.html

> And if I will make an application how could anybody else run that on his or her android phone?

You would want to do a Release build (non-shared runtime + assembly linking). Note that you should only distribute such .apk's within your company/group. We do NOT currently support distributing apps on the Android Market, and we have no "Go-Live" license at this time.

 - Jon