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Very insightful, rather than unjustified speculation. Of course it doesn’t explain why many other apps are so big, e.g. Withings, Bunq (bank), and Albert Heijn
by port11 10mo ago
Very insightful, rather than unjustified speculation. Of course it doesn’t explain why many other apps are so big, e.g. Withings, Bunq (bank), and Albert Heijn (supermarket) together eat 1GB of my storage. All 3 are things I need to list data, but somehow are the size they are.
- tralarpa 10mo agoI don't know much about app development, but I was curious and downloaded the Albert Heijn apk for ARM64. Inside the apk, the three largest entities are: - libflutter.so 140 MBytes (flutter, obviously) - flutter_assets 29 MBytes (this is a directory. The name is a bit misleading because it mostly consists of AH-specific icons.) - libapp.so 20 MBytes (also related to flutter, I think) There is a 640 KByte json file in the assets that stores an animation in base64 format. Now you know what the CPU and storage resources of your devices are used for nowadays...
- az09mugen 10mo agoSo it seems flutter by itself takes 200-ish MBytes. Flutter alpha is 2017 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutter_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutter_(software) Mystery solved it seems
- ThePowerOfFuet 10mo agobunq 30.0.2 on Android is 380 MB by itself.
- Neywiny 10mo agoBut this is still unjustified speculation
- port11 10mo agoGP offered one plausible explanation and backed it up with credible points. They’ve done more than the linked blog post which has no explanation to offer.
- Neywiny 10mo agoWhat about their comment is credible? They brought up possible points, borderline likely points, but it carries no ethos. No app decompiling, no build system analysis. I'm just not seeing what you're seeing