well I small game testing apk size is 15M

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2014 Accepted Answer

  Yes I think that is pretty normal for small apps.
  If you want to make it even more smaller you can:
  1) remove all default plugins that you don't use as:
  a) Google Billing plugin (.so files and vending/java files)
  b) LFS
  c) Json
  d) lsqlite3
  e) bitop
  f) luasocket
  
  2) Remove x86 (the app can still be run on most x86 tablets through emulation)
  3) Remove armeabi folder (app won't run on older Androids)

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• whidbey Member

  March 2014

  good advice..thank you

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• OZApps Guru

  March 2014

  @whidbey, i think the majority of that 15MB (in your case) could be graphics and sound. MP3 files are generally 1MB+ and images especially if you have @2x, @4x, type (maybe in this case as it is an apk [android] it might not be true) the size increases. You can also convert PNG files into JPG (if that saves you space).
  
  2-7 MB is normal (in my opinion) anything above that (for a simple game) depending on how much space is taken by the resources (images and sounds) should be looked into.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  March 2014

  I'm running at about 20MB with quite a bit of sound and gfx, 15MB isn't unusual.

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• whidbey Member

  March 2014

  @ozapps,thank you .the resource file includes too many photos and sounds..
  

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• aditya Member

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Would recommend keeping your images in png and compressing them using tools like imageoptim.
  
  For audio, reducing the bit rate helps decrease the file size. Also as I seem to understand, mp3 file size is smaller than a wav but takes up more memory during execution.

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• whidbey Member

  April 2014

  and the fonts?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  April 2014

  The fonts usually don't take that much, especially if you are using ttf fonts and not images for every text size

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• whidbey Member

  April 2014

  a small ttf file is nearly 10m..

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