Reduce app size

[shuvashish76]

Quotes app with all features = ~3MB
Another example Music Player Go = ~3MB

DMP with basic music player features = ~2MB
Any possibility of compressing DMP apk size?

[foldfree]

One thing I noticed is that it seems to be using a custom font. Would it be possible to pull the system font instead?

[VishnuSanal]

One thing I noticed is that it seems to be using a custom font. Would it be possible to pull the system font instead?

Yes, @foldfree. We have a custom font (poppins) bundled with the APK. I had the same thought, so I tried removing it too. But, it created only a difference of ~100KB, which wasn't worth removing the font file, for the design factor that the custom font provides.

On that note, we can load the font file from the internet (via downloadable fonts) but I don't want DMP to request internet permission too.

[foldfree]

I'm not a dev but what do you think of Kotlin? (the language music player go is written with) Would it be hard to rewrite it in that language? Seems like it is well suited for small projects.

[VishnuSanal]

@foldfree Um... Kotlin is optimised for Android development, but I'm not sure whether that'd have an effect on APK size. I'll look into it. Anyways, something like rewriting the whole app in Kotlin seems feasible only is the results are significantly better ;)

[shuvashish76]

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.martinmimigames.littlemusicplayer
Best minimalist music player.

Kotlin is optimised for Android development, but I'm not sure whether that'd have an effect on APK size

BTW this app is written in Java.