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
The generated ipa through expo build ios is too huge(144MB).Please give support to reduce it.
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
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
The expo client should remain large and include as many api. It should be possible to reduce the size of the final application. If you split the SDK into separate npm modules, then this will allow you to manage the size and also allow them to be used in applications without expo
I was searching for similar stuff. Wanted to use an expo module for a non-expo project.
@Sergey Khomyakov: Why not build a tailored client for every plugin, if you got expo package file, and native plugins implemented
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 :).