Garden Gnome Software

Greetings!

I have a client who I have developed fully tours - both photo and 360 video, and they have asked about an app for iOS to show the tours offline. The app on the app store has a meagre 4gb limit ... my virtual tour with over 100 scenes is over 8 GB and the 360 video tour is 45gb.

Please explain why we can not (instead of transfering via dropbox or airdrop) have the files saved in the FILES app on iPhone then load them direct into the viewer app? And why only 4gb limit? Its useless for commercial needs.

Thanks for your help, cheers, Glenn

Hi Glenn,

Please explain why we can not (instead of transfering via dropbox or airdrop) have the files saved in the FILES app on iPhone then load them direct into the viewer app? And why only 4gb limit? Its useless for commercial needs.

To the best of my knowledge the 4 GB limit https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02122015a is for total app size in the store (follow-on downloads per app can and do exceed that limit), and helps to establish controls so that Apple knows the up/down burdens to expect on their servers, and users can have some idea of what impact the average app may have on their device's storage.

Also an IOS app is sandboxed and it cannot access any other resource outside of that sandbox area. I found this apple document https://developer.apple.com/library/mac ... rview.html

So unfortunately unless you can get the size of the files down to that 4gb limit I'm not sure what you hope to achieve is possible.

cheers,

Tony

Hello Glenn,

The problem here is the ZIP file decoder in iOS. It can not handle files larger than 4GB. On Android, there is no such limit.