New tools to optimize your app's size and boost installs on Play
summary
Concrete fixes and numbers: Google Play finds 30% of installs drop out, 28% of users have <1 GB free, and every 3 MB saved yields ~1% more installs. Tools and results covered include the Android App Bundle, the Play Console App Size report (download size and size-on-device metrics), Bundletool’s get-size CSV, Internal App Sharing for quick testing, compression that saves ~10% on new installs and ~85% on updates, and Instant Games pilot savings up to ~40% for prefetched shared libraries.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:32Data
- 6:40Space
- 14:52Measure your app size
- 22:30Size metrics
- 30:51Lean efficiency
- 31:49Optimizations
- 32:55Extracting rarelyused libraries
- 33:49Large resources and assets
- 35:08Summary
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