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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by hayksaakian on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:46PM (#17527768)
Operating system bloat and app bloat.

A motorola droid was super fast, I had it for years.

If you made a brand new motorola droid today with the same exact hardware and software it would be too.

Here's a chart showing apk bloat for popular apps over time: https://sensortower.com/blog/ios-app-size-growth

It's for iOS but the same logic follows for android

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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by st26 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:44AM (#17530755)
Is ProGuard or similar widely used these days? Is it good enough?

There was a parallel trend of some really awesome apps clocking less than 4MB, which I attribute to good tooling. I wonder if Gmail, Facebook, et al have stripping & such turned off, or if they just have huge asset stores?

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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by Hamuko on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:22AM (#17529865)
>Here's a chart showing apk bloat for popular apps over time

What the fuck did Google add to Gmail in 2016?

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