Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p...
by cedilla on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:24AM
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They could, but it might be a pain to identify what's actually bloat.
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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p...
by kelseyfrog on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:15PM
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That sounds like a very fun project. There is of course the technical work in identifying unused code and resources, a data science framing where statistical questions regarding bloat could be assessed, a process framing component where tooling and dev-platform interactions could be incentivized toward reducing bloat, and and economics framing where structural changes in Play store could change dev strategies toward bloat. Someone in charge of leading such a project has a lot of options available for analyzing and solving the problem, none of them mutually exclusive.