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The best example I can think of is mobile apps in severely bandwidth-constrained countries. A 10MB vs 50MB APK could make the difference between success and fai
by kevan 10y ago
The best example I can think of is mobile apps in severely bandwidth-constrained countries. A 10MB vs 50MB APK could make the difference between success and failure because not many people are willing to wait 30m for an app to download.
- dan353hehe 10y agoRight and I agree. however I'm sure that most of the APK would be images, etc. and not the actual executable.
- toast0 10y agoImages are big, especially if you have multiple versions for different screens, but the Java code can also be pretty large (especially if you bundle in libraries). I think the play store can split downloads so people only get appropriate native code, but if you have a download version, it needs several copies. And if you've been a good developer and localized your strings, you'll be happy to know that the strings file isn't compressed (and it's utf16)