Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by koyote on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:25PM (#46519031)

I recently made a tiny utlity app with a single screen, one dropdown and a few lines of text (it makes a single API call to populate the text).

According to my phone it's 25MB.

There's no assets, not even an app icon.

I have no idea what would be taking up more than a few hundred kb, let alone 25MB.

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:09PM (#46520168)

Maybe your compiler isn't pruning dead code?

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by saidinesh5 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:25PM (#46522548)

I think it could be all the compat /support libraries that try to give you the same API across different Android versions.

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by Tox46 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:08AM (#46524206)

There are ways to analyze the content of your app so you know exactly what's taking all the space.

Tools can vary depending on what language you used. For example i wrote a small app using flutter and i used the flutter's app size tool.

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by abareplace on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:31AM (#46540293)

Is it for iOS? Then, it could be the Swift runtime library.

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