title: Android GTFS app
body: <p>I'm trying to work on an app which uses GTFS. This may seems like a stupid question but I couldn't find any answer to it.</p>
  
  <p>The GTFS for Israel, a rather small country with not so many buses infrastructure, is around 120 MB zipped file.
  Right now the only possible way I could think of for getting it working is to download the file, but downloading 120 MB using the phone could take quite a long time. Sure you can do this only once and save it in a database on the phone, but it still requires downloading 120 MB.</p>
  
  <p>Since it is zipped, I can't unzip it over the server and than just get the txt files..</p>
  
  <p>So basically I'm asking, How can I get the information to the phone, without downloading the zipped file? </p>
  
  <p>I've seen and used apps which uses that same GTFS file, and they load up really fast, even on the first load..</p>
  
  <p>I hope you understand my issue, not sure how to explain it better.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>P.s I would make an iPhone app too, and it's the same issue, hence the iPhone tag</p>