The latest version and the Google Play Services (4.3) now adds about 2,500 more methods (since 4.2)!! (Adding Google Play Services to your project will add about 14,000 methods to your app).... seems to be getting worse and worse!
On Friday, February 7, 2014 2:14:50 PM UTC-7, Jeff Campbell wrote: > > We have an app that depends on a lot of libraries, and recently we wanted > to integrate Google Maps into our application. We learned that we would > have to add the following dependency to our app: > > compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:4.1.32' > > Before adding this dependeny, our app had about a 40k method count. After > adding this dependency our method count jumped to about 50k (about 10k > methods added to our apk!). And, it seems that with every new version of > this dependency it grows more and more (we noticed about a 2k growth in the > last update). > > I know that this dependency contains a LOT of different types of services > which include things we don't even use (which all contribute to the 10k > method count). I know that I can use Proguard to strip out un-needed > methods, but in a development environment this just slows down build time, > and can make debugging issues difficult. > > Could the Google Play Services be divided into seperate aar projects? > Example: > > play-services-core (required by all... assuming that there is some shared > code) > play-services-maps > play-services-games > play-services-ads > play-services-plus > play-services-wallet > etc.... > > Doing this would reduce the risk of apps hitting the 65k method limit cap > (seems crazy that a Google library takes 15% of the 65k limit of any single > app) > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
