Hi @copypasteearth, Thanks for filing the issue. Please take a look at the Android docs and see if it helps.

@maheshmnj so is there a way to use deferred components as an asset pack?

@copypasteearth Unfortunately flutter currently doesn't support Play Asset Delivery. Deferred components is based on Play feature delivery. Labeling this issue as a proposal to Add support for Play Asset Delivery to by pass the size restriction limit when deploying to playstore.

However, you might want to checkout third party plugins from pub https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_play_asset to unblock yourself.

cc: @GaryQian

Since we don't control the android/play store side limitations, have you considered breaking up the assets into more components. If you break up into 3 deferred components, then each is ~100mb well under the limit. Since you are so close to the limit, different ways of counting mb (eg, 1000 vs 1024) may be putting you over somewhere

Yes I already tried to break it up into 4 components

Could your issue be related to #96046 ?

If so, you can try using an older version of Flutter as this is a more recent regression.

@GaryQian I tried flutter 2.2.3 and 2.2.5 I think, and the latest, I wound up using the play_asset_delivery package on pub.dev I noticed a difference was that I put "install-time" when using it in the build.gradle of the asset pack would that have made it work with deferred components?

Using install-time would make the assets all download at initial install, so you would loose the benefit of dynamically downloading as needed, but it would indeed work in getting around the size limit.

Any update on this? This is pretty critical, especially for offline-first and other data-intensive apps. It would be ideal to have Play Asset Delivery support in the platform.

Seems like there is this library now which helps in asset delivery.
https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_play_asset_delivery/example

But it would be good if we get official support as all other platforms allow upto 2GB for app sizes. But doesn't seem like there is a straight forward way.

Any update on this?

any update? need a solution

any update? need a solution

Would love this feature

Any updates?

Using the Flutter and pigeon library, I have created a sample app that can use the Play Asset Delivery (Android) and On-Demand Resources (iOS) features.

https://github.com/yamashita-room-335/online_assets

I have included a fair amount of comments as readme, so you may be able to implement these features in your own apps by copying any implementation you like!

I just found a easy way, how to integrate install-time asset packs with Play Asset Delivery.
Just add a Asset-Pack Folder in your android-Directory according https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/asset-delivery/integrate-native (build.gradle for your module, add assetPacks on your app/build.gradle and add the include in the settings.gradle)
Then ensure that you put your assets under android/<myAssetPack>/src/main/assets/flutter_assets/assets/<your-assets>. Then you can access your assets in a normal way like: Image.asset('assets/<your-assets>')

This only works with install-time asset packs and when you deliver your AAB over Google Play. For local-testing and iOS just add your assets directly in the default-asset path and uncomment the assets in the pubspec.yaml when you make your Play-build.

With this you can deliver 4GB app bundles to Google Play (like you already can with IPAs on Apple App Store).
(Each asset pack should not exceed 1.5GB.)