I have implemented an Android application using Xamarin:
The size of the .apk is 13.6MB with:
- Configuration: Release
- Linking: Sdk Assemblies Only
- Suported architectures: armeabi,armeabi-v7a
Here is the overview of sizes of the main components taken from the compiled .apk:
(these are the uncompressed sizes, I unarchived the .apk to a directory and looked to the files in Windows Explorer):
- classes.dex (1.23 KB)
- the two libmonodroid.iso (armeabi + armeabi-v7a) (5.58 MB)
- all Mono.xxx.dll (3.89 MB)
- mscorlib.dll (1.51 MB)
all System.xxx.dll (2.56 MB)
My app assemblies (the Droid app + one PCL) (204 KB)
- MvvmCross + plugins (599 KB)
- Xamarin ActionbarSherlock (348 KB)
- ZXing.monoandroid (413 KB)
- PCL Newtonsoft.Json (398 KB)
PCL Microsoft HTTP Client libraries (System.Net.Http.dll) (110KB)
'res' folder (Size: 451KB Size on disk: 816KB) - because some files are 1KB they produce fragmentation, so Actual size vs Size on disk is significantly different
- all PNG files (Size: 325KB Size on Disk: 496KB on disk)
What can I do in order to reduce the size of the compiled .apk?
I find it pretty big.