App storage issue?

[Chuck Spencer]

I recently just got my Galaxy Tab S 10.5 32G tablet, which came with lollipop 5.0.2 loaded.

I downloaded a few games, such as Asphalt 8, and Modern Combat 5. When I go to look at how much space each app is taking up it only show 10's of megs, and 0 for app data. Yet I know I downloaded at least 1 to 2gb per game. I see the application usage hasn't changed, but the misc has, but none show up in the misc list.

Is there a way to tell how much space an app is actually using?

Also, when I try to move a game to a SD card, it only moves the 20 or some odd meg, not the whole game.

I have never seen this with any other tablet I have had.

Thanks.

 

[Rukbat]

I know I downloaded at least 1 to 2gb per game. I see the application usage hasn't changed, but the misc has, but none show up in the misc list.

Is there a way to tell how much space an app is actually using?

The total amount it uses is the installation of the game itself (which can be very different than the size of the file you downloaded plus any data the game stores, usually in Storage/Misc.

Also, when I try to move a game to a SD card, it only moves the 20 or some odd meg, not the whole game.

I have never seen this with any other tablet I have had.

You've never noticed. Most Android apps are written using class files, and some classes just can't run from the SD card (neither can widgets), so only the pieces that can run from the SD card will be moved. That can be 5, 20 or 100, depending on how the app was written (or if it was - some "developers" just drag controls onto a template and it becomes their app. Most of the template can't be moved.) Since Android looks in main storage for app locations, a link has to be left in main storage (internal) pointing to where that piece is on the SD card. If the app is broken into enough pieces, it takes more space to store all those links that it would take to store all the pieces in a single chunk on internal storage.

That's why it's recommended that you buy a device with enough internal storage, and save the external SD card for data, pictures, etc.

 

[Chuck Spencer]

Guess I have been spoiled by the nVidia Shield tablet.

Still when I look at an app in the application section of settings, it doesn't show any of the data sizes.
On other tablets when you look at app the data section usually includes the sizes of all files downloaded.
So even if Asphalt 8 shows 72MB for the Application, it would normally show 1.4GB for the data.
Does the Galaxy UI handle that differently than stock android?

Just making sure things are working correctly.

 

[Chuck Spencer]

I know not all devices will move the data as well as the app to the SD card, but I thought the Samsung tablet did.