Android: vlc-android-sdk increase 60MB to my apk file size

Question

My apk file size is 5MB

After add \"de.mrmaffen:vlc-android-sdk:2.0.6\" to gradle, apk size increase to 62MB !

How i can resolved it ?

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Answer 1

VLC uses lots of native code. As a result, it has 18-30MB of native libraries per CPU architecture. While that will be compressed somewhat in the APK, a 57MB increase in APK is actually better than I would expect.

You either need to:

• Live with it, or

• Use splits or product flavors to indicate which subset of CPU architectures you are willing to support (the library itself supports arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, mips, x86, and x86_64), or

• Do not use VLC