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People ask why an app is large on Twitter and we at Emerge break it down. It's kind of become our bat signal.

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Usually, we break down iOS apps, as iOS apps appear to be an order of magnitude larger than their Android counterparts. Almost always, someone points to Android's size vs. iOS.

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At face value, they're right! The size we see in the iOS App Store is almost always a multiple of the Android counterpart in the Google Play Store.

But what if I told you that Android app sizes are larger than they might immediately appear?

In this blog, we'll explain why Android apps are larger than people think, where size comes from on both platforms, and whether iOS apps are really that much bigger than Android.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm guessing Android reports download size and iOS reports unpacked size?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 31 points 1 month ago

Indeed. And Android apps are still smaller.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The entire article summarized in a single sentence:

The iOS App Store shows Install Size, whereas Google Play shows Download Size.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

Gmail and Oral B are still much smaller on android (158MB and 139MB on my phone). So no, that doesn't summarise the article.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do install size mean unpacked size?

[–] MoonManKipper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Good article- thanks

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

I love the thought and detail put into articles like this.