Just curious, with the the fact that devices are getting more and more memory, how many people still see the APK size as an issue going forward?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:59, Jonathan Pryor <j...@xamarin.com> wrote: > On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:00 AM, klimaye wrote: > > Our current apk size is around 5 MB, thought most of that must be mono > as during debug the app size is less than 1 MB. > > > > Wanted to know if there were plans to reduce the apk size even further. > > 4.0 introduced an improved linker over 1.2.0, decreasing the minimum app > size from 4.2MB to 2.9MB. Are you on 4.0.1? How many architectures are you > supporting? Supporting both armeabi and armeabi-v7a will increase your .apk > size by ~1MB over just supporting one of them. > > http://docs.xamarin.com/android/advanced_topics/linking > > > Also, is there a certain legitimate boundary beyond which the apk size > cannot be reduced further since we are loading another runtime and > libraries to create our applications? > > 2.9 MB is the minimum Release .apk size in 4.0.1 (It might be possible to > get something smaller than the HelloWorld sample, but not significantly so, > and it wouldn't do much...) > > - Jon > > _______________________________________________ > Monodroid mailing list > Monodroid@lists.ximian.com > > UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid > -- http://www.opgenorth.net
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