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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by jandrese on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @01:06PM (#30444197)
"The Right Way" involves running the strip command before sending the app off to Apple for publishing. It's 5 seconds of effort and saves almost 200MB for literally thousands of users.
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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by bspammer on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:37PM (#30446829)
I'm willing to bet that the devs who made this app have never worked with a decompiler and have no idea what "symbols" are. Source: I am one of those people (well I have a vague idea, but certainly wouldn't think to check if that was causing bloat in my iOS app).
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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by tinus_hn on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:42PM (#30446912)
You’d think the right way would involve Apple refusing your app if it is wasting users storage because you couldn’t be bothered to strip your binaries.
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