Analyzing and Shrinking Android APKs

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Jon Douglas, Xamarin.Android Program Manager, walks us through tweaking and optimizing our Android APKs size. He shows off several tools to help analyze and diagnose large app sizes and what options are available to automatically shrink items.

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• Blog: Shrinking Your Android App Size
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• Blog: Faster Startup Times with Startup Tracing on Android
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