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minus-squareKairoslinkfedilinkEnglish17•6 hours agoThe reason they’re so huge is They’re generally not well optimized by the creators. They all contain their own dependencies There’s a LOT of stuff in them (both code and dependencies). Which is kind of an optimization problem, but potato potato.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•5 hours agoMobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.
minus-squareKairoslinkfedilinkEnglish10•5 hours agoSame thing with rendering/layout/functionality frameworks. And each app has their own. My favorite Android app, Trail Sense, which has the ability to know when sunrise and sunset are without Internet, is like 10MB
The reason they’re so huge is
Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.
Same thing with rendering/layout/functionality frameworks. And each app has their own.
My favorite Android app, Trail Sense, which has the ability to know when sunrise and sunset are without Internet, is like 10MB