How to decrease size of firemonkey android application?

Question

I published an application which was developed in Delphi XE8 with the Firemonkey Framework and Object Pascal. Application size is 8MB. When application is installed, size will be 40MB and greater. I know this application is complicated and there are 3500 lines+ codes in project. If I compile an empty project, size is still same with the complex project.

Is there any solution for decreasing application size?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a Hello World application with Firemonkey. It ships with a minimum functionality (the Framework). You can compile an application without it but you have to build all the functionality yourself. The power of Firemonkey is it's cross platform design and single codebase. You answered your own question in that you added a bunch of functionality and the size did not go up much. You could add 50,000 lines of code and the size won't change much either.