Hi everyone,
I was making an asset-free game where I draw everything using Corona’s display functions and when I got a build for Android, the build size was 6.7MB(iOS build size should also be near). That got me thinking: is it possible to make the binary smaller, either through Native or SDK?
Not that I’m aware of. That is about the lower limit (varies) for a Corona build. Actually it’s a bit smaller than it used to be.
Back in the day it was somewhere near 8MB I think so there’s some significant improvement there. I wish there was a way to make it smaller by removing “res” folder. It could save up to 1.3MB more which could take the size below 6MB.
the binary libs are ~4.7M, hard to get classes.dex much less than 1M, widget+ouya another 1M, and there’s your 6.7M min build.
btw, note that you CAN easily replace ouya and tv banner with tiny png versions - not much savings tho. (~150k)
replacing the widget images requires manually resigning and zipalign’ing the apk = hassle.
A small script from Vlad for Android builds minimizing the build size to 2.8-3.9MB - https://gist.github.com/Shchvova/225b74d47d4b0a1548292c29d02cf249
@davebollinger, a bit of a hack but I think it won’t work for iOS builds, right?
No, that’s for Android only.
Rob
By the way, looking at this article on Medium, Corona is in a pretty good place considering APK sizes.
Not that I’m aware of. That is about the lower limit (varies) for a Corona build. Actually it’s a bit smaller than it used to be.
Back in the day it was somewhere near 8MB I think so there’s some significant improvement there. I wish there was a way to make it smaller by removing “res” folder. It could save up to 1.3MB more which could take the size below 6MB.
the binary libs are ~4.7M, hard to get classes.dex much less than 1M, widget+ouya another 1M, and there’s your 6.7M min build.
btw, note that you CAN easily replace ouya and tv banner with tiny png versions - not much savings tho. (~150k)
replacing the widget images requires manually resigning and zipalign’ing the apk = hassle.
A small script from Vlad for Android builds minimizing the build size to 2.8-3.9MB - https://gist.github.com/Shchvova/225b74d47d4b0a1548292c29d02cf249
@davebollinger, a bit of a hack but I think it won’t work for iOS builds, right?
No, that’s for Android only.
Rob
By the way, looking at this article on Medium, Corona is in a pretty good place considering APK sizes.