Reduce the size of android facebook SDK

Question

We are using facebook sdk to login the users to our app. But the SDK is pretty large hence it is increasing our apk size. Since we use only the login feature we do

Answer 1

I see some possible ways :

1. There are some Facebook sdk alternatives on GitHub like: https://github.com/greenhalolabs/facebooklogin https://github.com/sromku/android-simple-facebook So try to find the best fitted library for your needs

2. You can try to use older Facebook library, which would be lighter, but also lack of some functions.

Before you do this point read some articles like this: Facebook authentication without login button

3. Finally, try to exclude unnecessary libs like in this example:

   dependencies {compile('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.3.0') { exclude module: 'support-v4' } }