is there ant utility able to compress the files from a mobile game in .jar format, better than other utility? THanks

Quote:Original post by Goguigo
is there ant utility able to compress the files from a mobile game in .jar format, better than other utility?


THanks

No. jar files are already compressed. Attempting to doubly-compress them or use a different compression algorithm can result in slower performance or even prevent execution, especially if jar and midlet execution is handled in hardware.

You already ought to use 'compressed' resources, such as smaller images and lower bitrate sounds, but they're generally lossy compression.

frob.

You can shave off quite a lot of space by using something other than "jar" to compress them. jar files are just .zip files.

I use info-zip, with various other options

    <arg line="-r" />     <arg line="-9" />     <arg line="-D" />     <arg line="-X" /> 

The "No directories" option does not store directories in the .jar. Because you're not going to uncompress it, there's no need to have directories. The unix attribs is because I'm building this on Linux and it would otherwise add Unix permissions into the .jar - which takes up space and is ignored by J2ME.

Mark

I've got a lot of reading material for you: an 8 page thread about minimizing jar size.

It's starts discussing obfuscation and other things, but goes on to the place where you are likely to save the most space: image optimizations.

You can use other programs to get a little more compression when you pack the jar (it's just a zip file like Mark said). From my experience 7zip has given the best results. But you need to be careful because some phones might have troubles with those ultra-compressed jars and not install your app.

shmoove