ignite app size is 30.2 mb

[affanhashone]

why app size is so big 30.2 mb without any huge libraries ?

[kevinvangelder]

If memory serves, an empty Hello World React Native app is ~25MB. We haven't spent much time on optimizing bundle size because it isn't really an important factor for most of our clients. However, if someone wanted to do a breakdown on why the bundle is so large and/or some pull requests to reduce the initial size we'd be happy to take a look.

[affanhashone]

@kevinvangelder for your quick Response, I think after React Native 0.60 The App Size Will Reduce, But Still have a Look When Your Team Get Time. I can Use Android App Bundle To reduce the app size, But Ios Is a concern.

[jamonholmgren]

The Hermes Engine will further dramatically reduce package size on Android. I think over time this will improve. We'd love some help reducing app size!

[ferroblesh]

is there any current work to reduce the size? How may I help with that?

[nirre7]

@ferroblesh

Our release build is about 11mb with a bunch of 3rd party libs.

Android: If you release the app as aab instead of apk then you'll reduce the size of the app a lot. To be able to do that you need to signup for "google app signing". There are several resources out there https://shift.infinite.red/handling-64-bit-android-builds-for-react-native-2fcd7a2e5c14

[morgandonze]

Inside an Ignite project, is this the app whose size we're concerned with?ios/build/TestAppSize/Build/Products/Release-iphonesimulator/TestAppSize.app This was 22.1 MB for me.

[maqeelqureshi]

Blank ignite app sizes,

debug : 45mb release : 34mb hermes enabled : 27mb aab release : 28.1

[frankcalise]

This app bundle size topic has been discussed over at issues https://github.com/infinitered/ignite/issues/2240 and https://github.com/infinitered/ignite/issues/1947#issuecomment-1223985929 so I'm going to close this for now.

Closing this for now but feel free to bring it back up in Discussions or Community Slack