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Facebook's "lite" messenger app is 6mb. Native apps are wild.
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This is the smallest decent app I have ever seen...pic.twitter.com/meYPMtG0JO
What is it about native mobile apps that make them so big? Is it something in the way that the native builds have been designed? Including SDKs etc?
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I think it’s probably all the image assets being included at multiple resolutions. AFAIK it’s taken a long time to get proper SVG support
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5mb is a *lot* of images
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It must be because of the Java naming convention. On a serious note https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Android-apps-smaller-in-size-than-iOS-apps … Also I think it'd be fair to compare it to electron apps rather than regular web apps.
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Primarily SDKs and bundled image assets in my experience
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On iOS the swift runtime and std lib takes up a lot of mb. Will improve the next coming years with ABI stability: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41907323/what-is-the-file-size-overhead-of-the-bundled-swift-libraries-compared-to-an-obj … https://swift.org/blog/abi-stability-and-more/ …
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