Jake_Wharton

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1. 1.▲
   by Jake_Wharton 4y ago

   Android keyboard always runs in its own process. No distinction between first-party and third-party either as they're both just regular apps like the launcher or browser. One simply is the default.
2. 2.▲
   by Jake_Wharton 6y ago

   Removing `-dontobfuscate` will change all the package, type, and function names to be single letters for the same result of greater compression. The goal here was to just get it small enough, not the smallest it could possibly be.
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   by Jake_Wharton 6y ago

   The goal here was to get the binary size to be small enough, not the smallest it could possibly be. The tool was written in 2 hours because I used a language I was proficient in. While I love me some Rust it would easily double if not tripl
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   by Jake_Wharton 6y ago

   The final section of the post was a Java port and size comparison. It also noted that while it was smaller, I simply don't want to use Java and the minute any external dependency is added (such as for CLI parsing) I'm right back t