Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app
by sond813 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:05PM
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I tried it out with Yelp and Twitter, both had a lot of bloat due to not stripping binaries. You can see this in the large "String Table" in both screenshots.
Yelp also has a large exports section for the main app binary, that's usually a sign of a problem because the main binary doesn't need to export any symbols, only frameworks do that.
Twitter has a handful of 4MB images, much bigger than images you'd expect in an app. I took a look at a few of these and they are just gradient background images that could have been drawn with something like core graphics to completely eliminate the need for an image.
Twitter: https://emergeassets.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Screen+Shot+...
Yelp: https://emergeassets.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Screen+Shot+...
Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app
by db48x on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:59PM
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They're probably shipping their org chat. Artists and engineers are on separate teams, and when the artists want to redesign the look of the app it is easiest to photoshop a bunch of images.
Those seem to be the biggest consumer of storage for me.