How do I make my app use less storage?

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I am making a launcher. Currently it takes up about 20 mb. What can I use to drop it to at most 9 mb?

Are you sure? I don't want it to eat up space. I'm trying to make it connect to a server where it can store the info there, and have the info backed up in case the user disconnects. Issue I'm having is publishing the server too. How can I publish my server (I use Ubuntu). — MCOM_Droid, Jul 14 '16 at 21:51
I am not sure what you are asking, but 20 MB is definitely ok... I've seen apps taking about 250 MB (hello, Facebook). — slanecek, Jul 14 '16 at 21:53
Lol that is true Facebook eats up storage like me in a buffet. — MCOM_Droid, Jul 14 '16 at 21:54
What do you think of the name? Its called Samus (after the metroid character as she is the most popular female leads in games) — MCOM_Droid, Jul 14 '16 at 22:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 14 '16 at 22:06

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Compress all your images with pngquant. It will reduce the size significantly atleast 30% i think.

answered Jul 14 '16 at 22:06

Faruk

I literally have no photos but I'll see if compressing the icon will do much – MCOM_Droid Jul 14 '16 at 23:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '16 at 09:14

Did you try to profile your apk?
I recommend you to figure out the problem by profiling apk.
Android Studio (2.2 Preview 1) has nice APK Analyzer.
http://android-developers.blogspot.jp/2016/05/android-studio-22-preview-new-ui.html

If the problem is classes.dex size, let's try Proguard to reduce the java classes. https://developer.android.com/studio/build/shrink-code.html

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