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James Dunay
James Dunay

Reputation: 2724

Best way to reduce app size for over 50 megs

Two part question.

I have an ipa file that is 26.5mbs and in itunes it says it is exactly that size, but when I install to a device it says that my app is 52.5mbs on the device... why? And does that mean that it exceeds the 50mb download size for non-wifi downloads?

Also Is there a way to remove some of the size like a compress or something? I'm not really sure besides removing images and files how to make it smaller.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1471

Answers (3)

Effie
Effie

Reputation: 116

I Managed to cut my iPhone app by half just by using this service: http://www.jpegmini.com/ I've uploaded all my jpegs and got a minified version of them (sometime more that 3 times smaller)

I had some animations (which were bunch of "png"s) that asked my graphic designer to flatten into jpg's instead of png's.

at the end i've managed to cut 13 MB from my app just my minifying images.

Upvotes: 2

Aziz Shaikh
Aziz Shaikh

Reputation: 16524

If I am not wrong, .ipa is already compressed. That is why your app on Store in 26.5 MBs but after installation, it becomes 52.5 MBs.

Upvotes: 3

Adam Wright
Adam Wright

Reputation: 49376

The size on device will account for any files you created whilst running, uncompressing the bundle, etc. The download limit applies to the size iTunes thinks the file is (i.e. the signed IPA), not the "on device" size.

You can probably get a smaller bundle though, depending on the makeup of your app. If there're a lot of images, you might like to look at http://imageoptim.com/, which is significantly better at crunching PNGs than Xcode's built-in recompression.

Upvotes: 1

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