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Re:APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99% by Aissen on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:13PM (#15444019)
No, the libs could be shared between apps, with at most one per API level, and shipped through the Play Store. If you want your app to work without Play Store, bundle the libs like today.
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Re:APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99% by kbenson on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:21PM (#15444080)
So, basically the Visual C++ Redistributable[1] but for Android? Seems to work well for Windows, from what I can tell.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B

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Re:APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99% by s73ver_ on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:28PM (#15444148)
They already have one distributed through the Play Store. That's the proprietary bits. The Support libs are open source, they can work without the Play Store, and different apps can have different versions of it.
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Re:APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99% by Aissen on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:20AM (#15447854)
Yes, and they can ship a shared version of the open source libs (like the system webview). And as I specified, with one per API level (different versions). Maybe that would force them to have better QA of those libs as well.
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