Google’s beta development suite for mobile apps supports the Android App Bundle format to reduce app size
Released in late March 2018, Google’s Android Studio 3.1 IDE has added improvements for C++ and Kotlin coders and for SQLite database users. And a beta version of Android Studio 3.2 was made available in May 2018.
You can download Android Studio from the Android Studio website.
Looking to reduce Android app size, Google has introduced a publishing format, called Android App Bundle, that uses modularization to deliver features on demand rather than during install.
Supported in the Android Studio 3.2 Canary IDE release, Android App Bundle addresses a concern about growing application size, according to Google. The larger an app gets, the fewer installs it gets, Google says. One beta user, LinkedIn, has seen a 23 percent size reduction. Another beta uswer, Twitter, has seen a 35 percent reduction, Google says.
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