the weight of an app

[Alain Vezina]

Now I understand. 
My app is a one to help people in french spelling and grammar. So I have a lot of words lists in several fields hidden to the user. I don’t want to use Internet to bring information when it is useful; it is very important that my app can be used anywhere, anytime. A data base could be a solution, but it will not be easy to build it because, in french, there are a lot of words with the same spelling not having the same meaning; for example, lime is a tool (a file) ans is also a fruit. There are also a lot of rules for the plural and the feminine forms, depending the way the word is ending, and so on. That is the reason why I used a lot of words lists. 
On the other hand, I am not sure that a data base could be a good solution if the problem comes from the weight of Unicode libraries. I had no problem before I used LC 7, but I have to use it for users who upgraded to iOS 8.

Thanks a lot Jacqueline and John

Alain Vézina, directeur
Logilangue
www.logilangue.com

Le 2014-11-22 à 16:24, John <john at onechip.com> a écrit :

> Might there be something else going on?  I made a simple stack (couple of buttons and a field that don’t do much) and compiled it as a standalone using LC6.7 and LC7.0.1 RC2.  
> 
> The Finder shows the version compiled in LC7.0.1 RC2. is 12.9 MB while the version compiled in LC6.7 is 5.6MB.  By my math that is a difference of 7.3 MB which is presumably do to the unicode library.  The difference seen by Alain is 26.9 MB.
> 
> I have no idea why but it seems as if there is an additional 19.6 MB of something other than the unicode library.  I have no idea what it is.  It seems like a lot of extra bytes even if all of text in his app now takes multiple bytes to store.  Is image storage less efficient in LC7?
> 
> My 2 Cents,
> John
> 
> 
>> On Nov 22, 2014, at 10:36 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 11/21/2014, 2:30 PM, Alain Vezina wrote:
>>> Why the weight of an app is more than the double of what it was before?
>> 
>> It's the huge unicode libraries, which need to be included in the build. RR is looking into ways to reduce their size, but they are required for all text processing now.
>> 
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>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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