it will be great if there will be any options to help reducing app size because just simple app size take 24Mb and thats a lot
hey, thanks that this feature is in progress, can anyone say when it may be available?
The generated ipa through expo build ios is too huge(144MB).Please give support to reduce it.
we recently changed standalone app builds so they only include the sdk version you use at the time of building, this reduced the android app size from i believe about 27mb to 19mb or so, unsure about the impact on the ios side at the moment. we'll keep working on making it possible to opt out of specific apis to further reduce the size
@Brent Vatne: kudos to the team!
@Brent Vatne: Awesome. looking forward to more modularity in the future.
@Brent Vatne: Cool!!! One more thing will the newly generated apk still target multiple architectures or did we strip down that too?
@Brent Vatne: Great Work!
@Brent Vatne: My app now it is 18 MB in size :).
@Brent Vatne: APK size was around 18 MB a few days ago. Which is pretty good. But now it's again around 28. I understand this is because now we have to bundle native code for four different CPU architecture. It would be great if expo supports split APKs. I believe this is not not very complicated to implement. So please consider.
@Sharfin Jahan Sakib: do expo build:android --type app-bundle to get an android app bundle
also, if your apk size increased from 18 to 28 it's because of the assets being included, you can pick what you want to include with assetBundlePatterns
@Brent Vatne: using expo build:android the size of my apk was 27.2mb , but using expo build:android --type app-bundle it became 28.1mb,the size is too large how do i reduce the size of the apk
@Fly Tech: 28.1mb is the size of the file but when you upload it to google play it will be very different. android app bundles are optimized after uploading for specific devices
@Brent Vatne: this seems broken for SDK 34? App bundle went from 13mb to 27mb after upgrading from 33 to 34
Great news!!! I'm looking forward to it. We have just finished our first app for customer completely made with expo. (Expo is great project btw). Size reduction would be nice. It's 31MB now in google store with some assets.
@Pavel Krčmář: i have also uploaded an app on play store which size is 33 mb using expo kit.and its .ipa file is 115 mb.so in size expo is not good.
@Brent Vatne That's great news, thank you!
thanks Brent! nice to see this one in progress!
we've been working on refactoring expo sdk such that we can pick which apis we want to include/exclude, this is in a good spot now and our next step is to migrate all of our apis to this architecture, and then we need to add support for this to our build service. no eta yet but this is well underway
@Brent Vatne: Any news on this?
Seems like one way to go is to implement native plugins and then split sdk into the core and other optional modules.
Expo client can still include all of the plugins, but standalone application should be able to specify which one it needs.
Could you guys have a try on this suggestion? It claims that can reduce 86% of the size, and make the package into just 7MB.
https://medium.com/@aswinmohanme/how-i-reduced-the-size-of-my-react-native-app-by-86-27be72bba640
After moving from expo 34, my app size increased from 15Mb to 46Mb for both App bundle and APK as well, even in google play store its showing around 25 Mb for app bundle, i think this is pretty huge size for a simple application.