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iOS app bundle size

See original GitHub issue

It seems that a stock installation of Capacitor generates .ipa (iOS) bundles of ~122MB, whereas the equivalent .apk (Android) bundles are ~3MB.

I am interested in why there is such a huge discrepency, as it greatly impacts deployment time (especially here in Australia, where it can take up to 15 minutes to upload even a small .ipa to the Apple Store).

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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mlynchcommented, Dec 6, 2018

It’s not as simple as measuring the .ipa file you have generated doing a local release build. Capacitor uses Swift, which results in larger bundles at build time. However, Apple does a ton of optimization in the store to cut down on the actual final install size. There’s not a 1-1 map

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