How to reduce Apk (.apk) size in android studio

Question

When i run my app size of apk will 21 MB. even i enabled proguard. i use android studio to run project. in project files src folder has 8.62 MB size and lib folder size is 4

Answer 1

try

 buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled true
        shrinkResources true
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}

shrinkResources true will not include the images from resources which your using in the final apk

hope this helps

Answer 2

I think you should build your APK as (APK bundle), Google promotes that for APK size issues. I've used the option for my projects and it did actually decrease the size of my APK.