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Operating system bloat and app bloat. A motorola droid was super fast, I had it for years. If you made a brand new motorola droid today with the same exact ha
by hayksaakian 8y ago
Operating system bloat and app bloat.
A motorola droid was super fast, I had it for years.
If you made a brand new motorola droid today with the same exact hardware and software it would be too.
Here's a chart showing apk bloat for popular apps over time:
https://sensortower.com/blog/ios-app-size-growth https://sensortower.com/blog/ios-app-size-growth
It's for iOS but the same logic follows for android
- Hamuko 8y ago>Here's a chart showing apk bloat for popular apps over time What the fuck did Google add to Gmail in 2016?
- st26 8y agoIs ProGuard or similar widely used these days? Is it good enough? There was a parallel trend of some really awesome apps clocking less than 4MB, which I attribute to good tooling. I wonder if Gmail, Facebook, et al have stripping & such turned off, or if they just have huge asset stores?