Modularity

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Waddingham wrote:
> On 2016-03-14 21:36, RM wrote:
>> Recently "elsewhere" a chap working with Livecode was complaining
>> about the 'bloat' in a standalone between the 6 series and the 7
>> series (he's going to go seriously sour when he sees 8)
>> because he is trying to squeeze standalones onto Android devices with
>> limited storage.
>
> Some empirical data - for a blank stack saved for Android, the size of
> the APK in each is:
>
>     LiveCode 6.7 - 2.4Mb
>     LiveCode 7.1 - 6Mb
>     LiveCode 8.0 - 6.3Mb

What is the relationship between the Standalone file in thee 
Runtime/Android folder and the resulting APK?

The Standalone file for Android in v7.1.2 is 12.8 MB.

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