Ionic android/ios www to apk process

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I converted my website into an ionic app and its almost 15MB. I have put all my JS ,HTML, and CSS files into the www/app directory. Bower components are inside www/lib. I use gulp to concatenate all my .js and .css files and put them inside www/js and www/css folders respectively. I want to reduce the size of the apk. Right now my source files and libraries are inside www. I wanted to know whether ionic just compiles the www into apk or does it take the entire project folder and turn it into an apk. I am thinking to move all my source files somewhere outside the directory and then use gulp to concatenate and store in www. I am also thinking of deleting unnecessary bower files. Will that reduce the size of the apk? Are there any other practices I should follow to reduce the size.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '17 at 06:58

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To build an apk use ionic build android

for reducing apk size check this link out.

Hope it helps.

answered Feb 25 '17 at 06:58

kaido

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how about the bower files inside lib? should i remove the unnecessary files? – Puneet Feb 25 '17 at 07:03
check this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/a/31760448/6799753) for clarification. – kaido Feb 25 '17 at 07:09

Ionic android/ios www to apk process

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