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How I reduced my app size from 75MB to 34MB !!

Suyash Vashishtha on September 27, 2024

🕜 The Lore So recently I was hired by Neurobridge Tech. as a Senior Mobile app developer to develop and lead end-to-end product developm...

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Andrew McCallum • Sep 28 '24

Out of curiosity what changes specifically improved the app performance by 80% and how did you measure that?

Typically the smaller app size doesn't directly improve performance by itself, especially 80%.

Where was the performance improvement? On cpu usage or memory usage?

Suyash Vashishtha • Sep 28 '24 • Edited

Well, the speed matrix,

The response which was generating increased in speed and stability
Reduced network requests to 50-60%
Whole was freezing while we were generating the response
CPU usage in the OS got reduced
Store Reviews went from 3.5 to 4.1 ( If that still counts :) )
Better Error handlings
Reduced Application lifecycles & Re-Renders
Fixed mulitple Memory leaks

Duc Nguyen Thanh • Sep 29 '24

Good jobs bro

Vickerdent • Sep 28 '24

Nice!

ToFe • Oct 2 '24

At the beginning of the article there is a typo:
Neurobrdige should be Neurobridge

Suyash Vashishtha • Oct 6 '24

Thanks mate, really appreciate it 🙌

Alex Lohr • Sep 28 '24

Now switch to tauri to get that size even more down.

Suyash Vashishtha • Sep 28 '24

Isn't Tauri desktop framework?

Alex Lohr • Sep 29 '24

Desktop and mobile (since 2.0).

kannan-rjp • Oct 7 '24

How many days it was take for this change?

Suyash Vashishtha • Oct 7 '24

2 Weeks of refactoring approx