Yeah, these files are intended to be overwritten by the app developer anyway, no reason in my mind for them to be huge fully realized graphic assets. I think we should even go so far as to add 'placeholder' text, so that people know that they should replace them.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Patrick Mueller <pmue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just tried recreating Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.crushed from the original > icon, with a solid gray background - png is 82KB. > > KILL THE GRADIENT. > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Patrick Mueller (JIRA) > <j...@apache.org>wrote: > >> >> [ >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1495?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13476424#comment-13476424] >> >> Patrick Mueller commented on CB-1495: >> ------------------------------------- >> >> I agree with Jesse's comments on the m/l. Gradients. KILL. >> >> Or ... I just tried using Acorn to save as a JPG (do they support JPEG?). >> At 80% quality, compressed to 134KB. Looked pretty good to me! >> >> If they don't support JPEG, I wonder if switching from a 24-bit to 8-bit >> PNG would help. Looks like I can get that down to about 240KB, but ... >> artifact-y. >> >> I'd vote to just kill the gradients. Next point release (not 2.2). >> >> > iOS default splash screen images take up several megabytes >> > ---------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > Key: CB-1495 >> > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1495 >> > Project: Apache Cordova >> > Issue Type: Bug >> > Components: iOS >> > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 >> > Environment: iOS, XCode 4.5, Cordova 2.0.0 >> > Reporter: Brion Vibber >> > Assignee: Shazron Abdullah >> > Priority: Minor >> > Labels: splashscreen >> > Fix For: 2.2.0 >> > >> > Attachments: crushed.zip >> > >> > >> > The default splash screen images for iOS are quite large; the Retina >> iPad images are 1.5 megabytes for each orientation! >> > $ ls -lh >> > total 8680 >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 1.5M Sep 17 15:18 Default-Landscape@2x >> ~ipad.png >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 413K Sep 17 15:18 Default-Landscape~ipad.png >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 1.5M Sep 17 15:18 Default-Portrait@2x >> ~ipad.png >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 412K Sep 17 15:18 Default-Portrait~ipad.png >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 342K Sep 17 15:18 Default@2x~iphone.png >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 92K Sep 17 15:18 Default~iphone.png >> > They should probably be recompressed to be a bit smaller; the gradients >> in the background may be at issue. >> >> -- >> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. >> If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA >> administrators >> For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira >> > > > > -- > Patrick Mueller > http://muellerware.org -- @purplecabbage risingj.com
