Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month agoThe reason they’re so huge is
- They’re generally not well optimized by the creators.
- They all contain their own dependencies
- There’s a LOT of stuff in them (both code and dependencies). Which is kind of an optimization problem, but potato potato.
kayazere@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Same thing with rendering/layout/functionality frameworks. And each app has their own.
My favorite Android app, Trail Sense, which has the ability to know when sunrise and sunset are without Internet, is like 10MB