James Montemagno
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App Size

Shrink Your Android App Size with One Setting

When you are developing Android apps your app size can grow really fast.  We can get so caught up in the day to day that we forget how important it is to keep down the app size of our app. It may not seem like a 20MB APK is that much, but when you have limited internet or reception it can be a real pain. As an Android developer you have to develop for multiple ABIs, add a ton of resources and translations, and of course you have you have all of your source code and dependencies. You may have a…

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How To Keep Your Android App Size Down

On my recent visit out to Tonto National Forest [http://www.fs.usda.gov/tonto/] to visit one of my best friends,Luke Karrys [http://www.twitter.com/lukekarrys], I started to realize the importance of trying to keep your app size down when shipping Android apps to Google Play. Working from the middle of the forest is relaxing, productive, and just plain fun, but there is one huge issue, internet and cell reception barely exists in the the middle of no where. When I woke up one morning and saw…

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