Apk size too large

Okay, so…

I started the tutorials in the website and completed the first lesson, the Balloon tap game. The only problem: it’s 7Mb! Any ideas why that is? I know you can build Android apps with Python, but the interpreter must be compiled in the app as well, which makes even the simplest app jump to ~7mb. Is that the case with Lua?
Also, which editor are you using? I tried Notepad++, Atom, Visual Studio and ZeroBrane, I liked Visual studio the best. 

Thanks. 

First of all, I should recommend Corona Editor with Sublime Text. You can also try it with Atom.

For the size, it can’t get much smaller than that. If you try very hard, you may be able to get it around 6 MB but I guess that’s the best you can get at the moment.

Corona has a rich set of APIs. To support all of our features, the core minimum size is going to be around 7mb.

Rob

First of all, I should recommend Corona Editor with Sublime Text. You can also try it with Atom.

For the size, it can’t get much smaller than that. If you try very hard, you may be able to get it around 6 MB but I guess that’s the best you can get at the moment.

Corona has a rich set of APIs. To support all of our features, the core minimum size is going to be around 7mb.

Rob