Moving big apps from one device to the other. Tip!

MarchantV

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I recently bought myself a Nexus 7 tablet and I like most people have too many apps on my existing phone (GNex).

So I have a few apps that are about between 100 and 300 mb to download from the Play store.

So I though what if I transfer some of the files to my tablet and then just download the executable from the Google Play store.

What I did was I found the folders in the Android/obb directory on my device (GNex) and moved them to my Nexus 7 just as a experiment.

I then found that only the executable was downloaded and the big file was used as normal.

So after some searching I found that if a games stores one big OBB file in the Android/obb/<game name> you can transfer it to you device without having to download everything again.

Hope this will benefit someone.

Definition: OBB lets you package up large files and store them on the public SDcard in a way that only your app can decrypt and use them
 
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