Removing unused font families from final bundle?

Currently looking into reducing the size of an app slightly. I’m only using the Ionicons font family, so removing all the rest would save around half a mb. Followed apples docs (here) and inspected the unzipped ipa. As I thought, all font families from react-native-vector-icons are included (from running react-native link).

Am I right in thinking that simply deleting the file and selecting Move to trash will handle the whole thing?

From what I see in version control references have been removed from project.pbxproj.

Only downside I can see to this is that if someone else starts up the project and runs rnpm link after including a new component or something, they’ll get the fonts included again.

Thanks

[shirakaba]

I just checked the podspec commit history and it’s actually always had that line. So I don’t know why there was a clash between the two build steps when I was using it yesterday and not when I was using it 1-2 years ago. 🤷‍♂️

[shirakaba]

I guess all the fonts are being added on the Copy Pods Resources step due to this line in the podspec, which specifies all font files via a glob:

https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons/blob/204e49d8597bd792ea2011c4b93ced22eb9133ca/RNVectorIcons.podspec#L15

Incidentally, the instructions on the README still instruct the user to manually add the individual font files via the Copy Bundle Resources phase, but now this actually causes a build failure due to the Copy Pods Resources step repeating the very same action.

@ospfranco in an earlier version of this library, I believe the podspec didn’t have that line, so you could roll back to using that version which would allow you to specify the exact font files you’re using and no more.