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Thomas Clayson
Thomas Clayson

Reputation: 29925

What is the "normal" filesize for an app?

My app compiles to about 80mb. I was under the impression this was quite large. However it does have video content, high resolution images and we're charging ₤3.99 for it on the App store.

What would be "large" for an app? For instance, would you say 80mb was large? What would you say the limit is (realistically).

Thank you very much

Tom

Upvotes: 1

Views: 503

Answers (3)

christo16
christo16

Reputation: 4843

That is pretty large. IMO anything over 20MB is large, seeing how it requires a WiFi connection to download. Since your well over that, I wouldn't worry about bringing it down.

Whenever possible, keep your app under 20MB. However, there are plenty of apps that are bigger than yours.

Upvotes: 2

user23743
user23743

Reputation:

Some of these high-resolution magazine apps are a few hundred megabytes (I know they're iPad, but the storage is the same size in each case). I think <100MB is not unreasonable.

Upvotes: 2

Joshua Nozzi
Joshua Nozzi

Reputation: 61228

I really don't think this can be answered objectively. You should do whatever you can to keep it as small as possible so you're not wasting storage space on the device. Just realize the app bundle's size isn't a reflection of the exectuable's size. If the executable is huge, that's a (memory) problem you should try to address. If most of it is resources, compress as well as you can without sacrificing too much (or any?) quality, and that's the best you can do.

In other words: there is no such thing as a "normal" size for an app.

Upvotes: 4

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