Size of a very large Xamarin Forms application

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I recently created an application using Xamarin.Forms, but after launching, it was 15MB in size. My application has a total of 8 pages ( views ) of which only two use images and speaking in images the total size of my resoucers folder is no more than 2MB. / p>

Is it normal for an application made in Xamarin?

In case I left the linker active when I went to publish, this helped a lot in reducing the size, but still compared to other apps on Google Play itself, I see that the size of my application could be smaller.

Note: I would like to make it clear that I have already done another topic where I ask for tips to reduce the size of my application, where I got answers and I'm following the tips from there ( Reducing the size of the application ). The question of this topic is if it is normal an application developed in Xamarin without so many images stay of this current size (15MB).

    
asked by anonymous 22.08.2018 / 18:03

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Yes, totally normal, it is even small because it used techniques to take much of the excess not so necessary. It needs to send all the necessary Mono, all the Xamarin, all the Xamarin Forms in addition to its application which should be a small percentage of it (not so much because of so many resources , I found it exaggerated, but it can make sense ).

Unfortunately on mobile deploy is bad anyway. They think they are making it easier, but on a device that needs more savings than the desktop they do not allow you to save as much as you can on the desktop. Mobile is a very wrong platform that should only be used in the latter case.

If you stop using Forms, the size becomes smaller, if you stop using Xamarin it gets smaller. But maybe I can reduce more with the techniques that have told you and others like it.

    
22.08.2018 / 18:46
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