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> a few dozen kilobytes A "hello world" Android starts at ~5MB. It is possible to make it smaller if choosing some non-default different tools.
https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid 25Kb
The “default” recommendation is clearly Android Studio plus Kotlin/Java.
Other tools are smaller.
> For most of that period, the size of the Gmail app hovered around 12 MB, with a sudden jump to more than 200 MB near the start of 2017... The Gmail app, on the App Store, is currently 760.7 MB in size. With charts: https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/the-top-iphone-apps-are-tak... I had no idea common apps used to be just 10-30 MB. But are now hundreds of MB. Something like Gmail doesn't have massive hi-resolution bit…
For a while there were app size limits for downloading over mobile data. That meant that if your app was too big you'd have terrible growth metrics.
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It's quite common in UK English (and maybe others, I don't know), to refer to "singular" or collective non-people entities (such as companies, I know Gmail itself isn't one) using the plural form of verbs. This isn't in my natural speech, but I quite like it; it seems to kind of imply "the people behind [company]" rather than anthropomorphizing the company itself. ...generally though I think it's just colloquial conv…
There's something funny about someone trying to be smart and pointing out a typo or some other minor irrelevant error only to be proven completely wrong.
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> I had no idea common apps used to be just 10-30 MB. More like a few dozen kilobytes to a handful of megabytes. If you look in F-Droid you can find some good old apps where graphics are either small or it uses the default styles for buttons and the like Looking at a tiny utility app I made 6 years ago, it's 9KB, most of which will be the default things the compiler includes
I recently made a tiny utlity app with a single screen, one dropdown and a few lines of text (it makes a single API call to populate the text). According to my phone it's 25MB. There's no assets, not even an app icon. I have no idea what would be taking up more than a few hundred kb, let alone 25MB.
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Why?
Small screen, lots of system components that should get drawn dynamically, etc A bit reductionist, but I get it, if it were a priority you could do lots with a hundredth the space
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Small screen, lots of system components that should get drawn dynamically, etc A bit reductionist, but I get it, if it were a priority you could do lots with a hundredth the space
Small screen (iPhone) that could also be a medium screen (iPad) or even a large screen (Macbook), no?
A 6 inch screen doesn't need an 8K logo and all it's variants
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Small screen (iPhone) that could also be a medium screen (iPad) or even a large screen (Macbook), no?
Yes but with Vector based logos, and considereing you don't actually need all sizes for most apps there's a lot of margin there A 6 inch screen doesn't need an 8K logo and all it's variants
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Corsair iCUE. 1.1GB to control your RAM lights...
Beautiful example of bloat. Bravo! The software crisis never ended. Instead, we also gained a hardware crisis.