How to reduce APK size in Android ?

Hi friends, i am an Android developer. I am here to share how can we reduce APK size in Android OS which has been the best-selling OS on tablets and on smartphones.

1.Use ProGaurd.
2.Remove any debug info you have in the app ( statements such as Log.i()). ...
3.Use recommended media formats. ...
4.Compress images using OptiPNG or PNGCrush.
5.Use 9patch to scale images.

Hi,

I would recommend that you compress the .jpg files as much as possible, this should greatly reduce the size of your .apk file. A tool such as Paint.NET which is free should help you do this. It has great resizing options.

Application size mostly depends upon images and other media elements. If you use compressed images with good quality then surely the app size decreases lot also minimize the code length and avoid warning messages.

Hey! In the lasts months we published an article on our blog: The number of downloads may depend on the size of the mobile app, so probably it may give you some hints about what to do on reducing APK sizes on Android apps.
Also, I just wanted to inform that we recently opened a new thread on our forum about the new requirements on Android's Play Store that Google announced in the past days. Only native apps with 64-bit support on Android's Play Store

using the best compression on the type of asset may give you a huge savings in apk size.
for example jpeg should be used in photographs and png for drawings.

hello, you can use this code if you run your project in the android studio.

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'


android {

    compileSdkVersion 23

    buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"

    useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'

    defaultConfig {

        applicationId "com.oi.food"

        minSdkVersion 16

        targetSdkVersion 23

        versionCode 1

        versionName "1.0"

    }

    buildTypes {

        release {

            minifyEnabled true

            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'

        }

    }


    packagingOptions{

        exclude 'AndroidManifest.xml'

    } }


dependencies {

    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')

    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'

    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'

    compile files('libs/httpmime-4.1.1.jar')

    compile files('libs/apache-mime4j-0.6.jar')

    compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.3.2'

    compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1'

    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.1.1'

    compile 'com.paypal.sdk:paypal-android-sdk:2.14.1' }