Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
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Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#2The article doesn't answer the question. The content can be summarised as "The Gmail app is 700 MB!"
Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#310 MB mail app. 690 MB local llm to write snarky emails for you.
Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#4Google and others are putting 2FA notifications in their regular apps like gmail. I had to open my gmail app to get a 2FA code instead of my google authenticator app today... which is very weird and probably increases the needed security of the gmail app in addition to the size
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#5> why is the Gmail app almost 80x the size of the native Mail app?
Apple Mail leverages libraries and frameworks already present on the device.
Google uses libraries and frameworks very likely already present on say Android, but on iOS they have to ship a gigantic runtime that implements those things the app depends on; this way they only have to write the app once for several supported platforms.
I’m just speculating by the way but it sounds like the likely reason.
You’ll notice Google Docs or sheets are equally gigantic because each also ships a copy of those enormous runtimes.
Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#6Google and others are putting 2FA notifications in their regular apps like gmail. I had to open my gmail app to get a 2FA code instead of my google authenticator app today... which is very weird and probably increases the needed security of the gmail app in addition to the size
You really think 2FA notifications cause so much bloat?
Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#7The article doesn't answer the question. The content can be summarised as "The Gmail app is 700 MB!"
Right! I was looking forward to some insight into what's in that thing, but there was nothing.
Why IS the Gmail app 700MB?
Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#8Hacker News is currently sitting at 130 MB. I simply do not understand how these things are calculated but I suspect the calculated amount that the Chrome tab diagnostic isn't a consistent way of comparing to other application memory usages, or at least a mental model that makes sense to most people (e.g. whats a lot of memory consumption? what should it be? is it too high, is it too low? etc.)
Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#9The question why is almost all modern apps pushing around 1G.
It is dependencies, if you ever compiled almost any GUI application via prots/pkgsrc on a BSD, you will be shocked by the dependencies that application needs, it is obscene.
Re: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
#10The article doesn't answer the question. The content can be summarised as "The Gmail app is 700 MB!"
Right! I was looking forward to some insight into what's in that thing, but there was nothing. Why IS the Gmail app 700MB?
Emerge Tools has an old thread on why it's actually so big: https://x.com/emergetools/status/1810790280922288617