Apple is developing a feature for using apps without requiring full downloads

Post by vbezhenar » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 8:15 AM UTC

novok wrote: post #70

mrtksn wrote: post #68

I have an app written in Swift and weights between 8-20Mb(depending on device and iOS version), which is not too far of from a typical website these days and the startup times are phenomenal(between 250-500ms, depending on the devıce). Writing in Swift is a delight and this is the feature I was dreaming about because having the user to install the App is not easy these days(100 impressions on Appstore Search would ge…

With Objective-C apps, it used to be even better, in startup and in app size. I think you can still get similar app size if you make a pure Obj-C app today.

Post by Angostura » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 8:25 AM UTC

jcelerier wrote: post #83

mrtksn wrote: post #82

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Oh I did not put any effort to optimize that. I bet I can get this number lower with some lazy loading but what for? The app is loaded by the time the springboard animation ends, the user interaction isn't likely to start before that. It's a new App that I try to iterate quickly, so I prefer to keep away of added complexity that optimizations would bring. If it feels quick enough on the lowest end device that I suppo…

When you are used to desktop apps coming up and being useable literally in the next frame of you launching them, any interaction with mobile decices and webbpages with loading times everywhere is absolutely terrible. Makes me remember all the game consoles which would have loading time ms everywhere - it was terrible and frustrating when you were used to PCs

Post by nicoburns » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 8:34 AM UTC

rubicon33 wrote: post #89

mrtksn wrote: post #84

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The unnecessarily large apps probably use cross-platform tools that ship their runtime with each installation, losing out on Apple's optimizations or they have multiple ad tracking or 3rd party UI libraries. I am not an expert in mobile dev by any means since I switched from web to native mobile development barely a year ago but when I was still resisting to learn the native way of doing things I was exploring the cr…

> With these cross-platform tools, the moment you try to do something a little bit differently than everybody else, you find yourself stitching multiple 3rd party libraries together and these libraries add up to the binary size and loading times. This. I have tons of native iOS experience. Started with react native a little over a year ago and was shocked at how difficult some things are. Easy things are easier. Hard…

Post by whoisjohnkid » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 8:50 AM UTC

Post by eythian » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:27 AM UTC

adwww wrote: post #3

riyadparvez wrote: post #2

It seems very similar to Android feature called Google Play instant: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant .

This (or something like it?) has been available for ages, but the only time I've ever actually encountered it in the wild is with links to a JIRA project.