zipalign

http://developer.android.com/tools/help/zipalign.html

The zipalign tool aligns all uncompressed data in an APK. Running zipalign minimizes memory consumption during runtime. If you’re using the ADT in Eclipse, your application always gets zip-aligned when you export a signed application, as demonstrated in Chapter 8.

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