Description: iPhone app size is the biggest concern
for iPhone app developers due to less internal storage. This post will give 3
top tricks to reduce your iPhone app size drastically.
Internal storage
is a common concern for any smartphone user and that too for
iPhone users it is no less than a life and death problem due to less internal
storage. Out of all, the most infuriating notifications is “Phone storage is
almost full. Please delete some files to free space.” Usually, every time users
have to go to “Settings” option and delete a few files and other unused apps to
free some space. The major reason behind this memory full notification, apart
from music, photos, and videos is cache.
Generally, any
iOS app is made of a hell of a lot of caches, especially if they do not delete
cache. This is a must-do step for any kind of iPhone app development.
Let me put this in
a different way. If you have an iPhone that has 16GB internal storage feature,
then you would face too many limitations since already 4GB memory is consumed
by Operating System and other in-built apps. Now, you have to get rid of any
documents from storing, photos, and videos. In addition, there are certain
limitations pertaining to images and record video. If you are an iPhone fan,
then you have to compromise with the storage option. Apart from OS, you also
would be needing a lot of GB for storing of your files.
This results in
deleting a lot of apps that occupy too much space. No matter how good your app
is, if it is consuming too much space then the user will likely delete your
app. Moreover, this is a problem faced by iPhone 16GB users. There are more
limitations for an iPhone 4GB user. Finally, it all comes down to app size. Now
what about iPhone application development?
For that reason,
we have listed the top 3 tricks for mobile app developers to significantly
reduce the size of an iPhone app.
1. App Thinning
App thinning is
fragmenting one code into multiple of codes. This process will assist the app
developer in setting the segments of codes together for the mobile user to use
in bits as needed. With the help of app thinning, space management and storage
can be very well optimized.
By using this
special feature, any iOS-based app can not only work faster but also responds quickly
and offers the users a top-quality user experience. With the help of this app
optimization, iPhone app development not only lets using minimum space but as
well as offers more features to the users. However, iOS or above only will be
able to get to access most of the features.
The other way
that comes up in app thinning is asset slicing. In addition, it is one of the
most convenient ways of taking advantage of app resource slicing is through
asset bundles. This lets the distribution of various kinds of the iOS app by
minimizing the load from the whole asset class. It offers feasible solutions
for different targeted devices. App slicing can pile various assets into the
first app bundle and still be available within the 100MB over-the-air download
bound.
2. Bitcode
Organizing code
as an intermediate portrayal is called as “Bitcode.” iPhone app developers need
to send app for review or even upload a new version of the app in the Apple App
Store. Moreover, Bitcode will link it directly to the App Store.
With smartphones
all around, the code size is extremely important due to the mobile itself has
less storage space when compared to a basic hard drive. The app developers can
optimize and even re-optimize the app code without even sending the new version
every time.
The new iOS 9 has
Bitcode by default and is needed for watch OS apps. iOS 9 apps can switch off
bitcode however if a developer picks to employ bitcode, all frameworks within
the application require to contain it.
3. On-demand Resources
On-demand
resources are app content that are actually hosted on the App Store and
distinguish from the pertaining app bundle that you download. At least this is
what Apple says. On-demand resources are either hosted by TestFlight or even
your own web server.
On-demand
resources actually take things one step ahead by downloading the relevant
content you require when you initially begin utilizing an app including game
levels, media, document templates, and many more.
Let’s say, when
you try to download a new game from the App Store, it would only include the
initial five levels and have it queued up the rest and waiting on Apple’s
server. Once you finish the levels maybe 3 or 4 then the App Store would
download the next levels of the game and delete the initial levels.
In other words,
as and when the new content comes into your smartphone, the old goes out. All
you can is the size of the app that may differ very slightly as you use it. But
the good thing is you never have to save all of it at once.
The positive
thing about app thinning is that it is completely transparent on the user’s
side. Until the app developers keep developing apps that can be reduced in
size, the Apple will take care of everything else.
iOS 9 is out and
because of app thinning it has already made its place in the market. This new
system has been installed nearly half of all Apple devices. App thinning is one
of the major components of iOS 9’s enhanced efficiency. It is designed to
optimize the installation of applications on iPads, iPhones, Apple watch etc.
to take the most beneficiary of the device’s hardware and features and consume
low space.
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