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by sond813 6y ago
Thanks! We have some docs on image optimizations here: https://docs.emergetools.com/docs/optimize-images Emerge will automatically compress images as jpg and convert to HEIC and report the size diff do you. We aren&#x2
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by sond813 6y ago
App thinning goes a long way if you're supporting multiple architectures, but if your app has a lot of code it can still get very big, very fast. There are many companies that have dedicated teams to trying to handle app size, but we&#
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by sond813 6y ago
Emerge is designed to help you reduce both! We go into detail on the differences between them (and other ways of measuring size) in our docs: https://docs.emergetools.com/docs/what-is-app-size
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Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size
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How 7 iOS apps can take 500mb less space(medium.com)
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by sond813 6y ago
Absolutely right! I left out some details to try to keep the post concise. 4 years ago at Airbnb we had the watch app problem, but now a Swift watch app wouldn’t be an issue since the latest OSs don’t require embedded Swift standard librari
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by sond813 6y ago
Parts of the binary on the App Store are encrypted so we can only get limited information from it, but the whole app bundle is available and the rest of the files are not encrypted. We’re building a startup to help monitor, analyze and redu
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by sond813 6y ago
I was an iOS engineer at Airbnb when we were battling binary size increases caused by Swift. I rewrote the watch app twice; once to migrate to watchOS 2 and once to convert it all to ObjC (which saved ~9mb). While Swift does have its proble