Size Matters: How to Measure and Reduce Android App Weight
summary
The talk explains how different measures of Android app size (install APK/AAB size, on-disk app footprint, and runtime storage) affect user growth metrics and revenue, and shows how to measure each one. It presents tools and techniques for size optimization, demonstrates them by shrinking Google’s open-source I/O Schedule app, and describes how to monitor size, build custom tools for uncovered aspects, and prevent uncontrolled on-device app growth.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:44Why app size matters
- 15:25Optimizing size
- 17:09Analyzing app size
- 21:24R8 optimization
- 26:19Shrinking native libraries
- 28:27Aggressive code optimization
- 30:57Disk size measurement
- 36:04Cache and DB optimization
- 39:15Summary
- 40:19Q&A
related talks
22mHow to Make Your App Lose Weight
36mNew tools to optimize your app's size and boost installs on Play
45mHas Your App Slimmed Down for Summer?
21mHow to optimise app size to below 10MB
40mGenerating efficient apk by reducing size
41mShrinking Your APK, By Example
33mPruning Your App- Good Practices for Reducing App Size
29m10 Ways To Improve Your Android App Performance