Progressive download information request

hi,
i'm working on a project for a major publisher that wants more control on the quantity of information downloaded by app before the first article is ready and can be viewed.
Question is what actually regulates the amount of data is first downloaded before the view button activate?
I noticed that using high priority on first articles on the folio, the amount of data in the the view button can be used not before 30mbyte are downloaded.
This does not change if I add or remove data to the first articles.
Any help or explanation?
Thanks in advance.
pb

If you set every download priority to "low", the view button should be
visible after all the metadata (article titles and settings) are downloaded.
That should be not much more than one megabyte.
—Johannes

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want to use
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