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Pratik S. Gode
Pratik S. Gode

Reputation: 260

".ipa" file size issues -xcode archive

I have created an project of size nearly 5 MB, but after archiving app from xworkspace it increases upto 194Mb and IPA file size upto 70 MB.

Will it fine to have a large size "ipa" for normal application ?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3105

Answers (2)

jlngdt
jlngdt

Reputation: 1368

If your entire project is only 5Mb size, you may have a dependency or copy build path resources problem.

Double check :

  • do you need all frameworks linked to the project ?
  • do you have a build phase which copy to final resources path unused or unwanted files ?
  • if you use dependency manager suche as cocoapod or carthage: are all the pulled external frameworks necessary ?

If you want to know what are the big files, it's pretty easy once you have the IPA file: rename your ipa with "zip" extension, unarchive, explore

Bonus: Even the finder say to you "XX MB", it's not the final size. To know the final size, you can upload your ipa on ituneconnect, even if you don't want to use it. after processing, in builds list. You can have the final size for each devices. ex:

https://i.sstatic.net/fi0HZ.png

As you can see Universal is quite big compared to the specific build for, for ex, iphone 6 !

Upvotes: 1

Basil M Kuriakose
Basil M Kuriakose

Reputation: 21

It is fine as long as the IPA file size is less than 100 MB. Once the file size becomes larger than 100MB, then it won't be available to download from the Appstore on Cellular Internet. It will be available to download only on WiFi.

I would recommend you inspect the Xcode project to find large dependencies that are causing the file size to increase.

Upvotes: 2

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