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Re:Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB by refulgentis on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:10PM (#41618792)
I continue to be puzzled by how much smaller apps are on Android, ex. Took me 9 tries, including ads, to find a thermometer app over 7 MB. I've worked on both platforms for years and yet don't really know why. Only guess is Android has a much richer tradition of vector art over bitmaps, and Swift libraries had to be compiled in for years until ABI stability enabled using dynamic linking to OS ones
Re:Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB by nine_k on Sunday September 22, 2024 @09:26PM (#41621568)
Publisher not also being a major hardware vendor helps :-|

(Only partly a joke, etc.)