why is air for Android slow as a snail while...

While flash player 10 for android is smooth as silk?

Try this page on your Android device:

http://literacysoft.com/tst/McGuffey_Primer_Courseware.swf

every thing works smoothly in flash player.

My program makes a rather large apk file, at 38 megs and contains thousands of mp3 files. It runs very very slow sometimes taking several seconds loading a 2 kilobyte file. Is it this slow because it is loading and unpacking my files into an inefficient ram disk? Its like it is paging the whole apk file everytime it loads a single file no matter how small.

I may have to abandon the android side of my project. This is just not going to work.