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- Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?
- Ok so I guess we're talking toothbrushes today 🦷 🧵 Why @OralB is 290 MB + looking at an even bigger toothbrush app (tysm for all the tags 🥲)
- Replying to @emergetoolsThe Localization size might shock people, but its a frequent problem in iOS When downloaded, iOS apps contain all languages that an app supports, whereas on Android, a user will only download the languages they need This is *one* of the reasons that Android apps are typically
- Do you want a paid wallpaper app from @MKBHD? Maybe not? Well do you want to know how its made 🤓 🧵 Looking inside the new @panels_art app, starting with ads
- Do we know why the Tesla iOS app is 760 MB? Can it be made smaller? Does a bear...nvm This is a fun one, b/c the Tesla app does something not many other apps do 🔬 Taking a look at Tesla's app size + exploring
- Replying to @emergetoolsHere are the biggest chunks of the app Main app target - 225 MB Plugins - 99 MB Dylibs - 46 MB Localizations - 130 MB 👀
- Saw this post on Reddit... this is our bat signal v3.86.1 of the @Fidelity app has an install size of 527 MB... and about 50% of that doesn't need to be there 🧵 Breaking down the Fidelity app + why it's grown 250 MB in the last year
- Exactly 1 year ago today, we had our biggest tweet ever about @gmail's iOS app size And funny enough, Gmail's size is making the rounds again 🧵 Looking at why Gmail is ~700 MB (+ why it's increased by 100 MB in the last year)
- The largest iOS apps all have a common problem Localization files account for 23% (74 MB) of @Uber 23% (30 MB) of @WhatsApp 17% (53 MB) of @MicrosoftTeams 17% (50 MB) of Nike Run Club 🧵 Here's how Airbnb reduced the size of localizations by 82% with the help of Emerge
- We got multiple tags to analyze the Tapo @TPLINK app for being over 760 MB 👀 Let's see what we find in here 🤭🔎
- What happens to an app's performance when it goes from react native -> native? The @peacock app just made the switch on iOS & Android and had a significant change in size and startup time 🧵 Performance impact of switching to native
- Replying to @emergetoolsAs far as optimizations go, one of the more interesting ones comes from the sheer number of files in Gmail There's over 20k files in the app, 17k of which are under 4 kB. In iOS, the minimum file size allocation is 4 kB, so having many small files causes unnecessary size bloat.
