Does Android Studio compress classes.dex file?

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It seems like the classes.dex of apk file in output folder is something different from the one of installed app.

I'm using classes.dex file for some security issues, so usually I unzipped the final apk file and got informations from classes.dex file. But when I read classes.dex file at runtime file size is so different. (8MB vs 46KB)

App itself is working great. Someone said that Proguard makes classes.dex file lighter but I turned off Proguard. (useProguard false, minifyEnabled false in build.gradle)

Is there anything I can try? Thank you in advance.

One sentence summary : classes.dex of the app/build/outputs/apk/app.apk file built by Android Studio differs from the classes.dex that I could find from actual app installed location of Android device.

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