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Are Android apps THAT much smaller than iOS?

www.emergetools.com Emerge Tools Blog | Are Android apps THAT much smaller than iOS?

An in-depth analysis of Android vs. iOS app sizes and why Android apps might be larger than they appear

People ask why an app is large on Twitter and we at Emerge break it down. It's kind of become our bat signal.

Usually, we break down iOS apps, as iOS apps appear to be an order of magnitude larger than their Android counterparts. Almost always, someone points to Android's size vs. iOS.

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At face value, they're right! The size we see in the iOS App Store is almost always a multiple of the Android counterpart in the Google Play Store.

But what if I told you that Android app sizes are larger than they might immediately appear?

In this blog, we'll explain why Android apps are larger than people think, where size comes from on both platforms, and whether iOS apps are really that much bigger than Android.

12 comments

I'm guessing Android reports download size and iOS reports unpacked size?
- Indeed. And Android apps are still smaller.
- The entire article summarized in a single sentence:
  
  The iOS App Store shows Install Size, whereas Google Play shows Download Size.
  
  Gmail and Oral B are still much smaller on android (158MB and 139MB on my phone). So no, that doesn't summarise the article.
  
  Do install size mean unpacked size?
- It's written in the article. You won't need to guess if you read it. The article is in depth & interesting. Not your average 5 min think why
  
  Surely you have better things to do than be a prick, otherwise you would see that I read the article and replied to myself.
  
  How dare you encourage reading the article in the comments section about said article! Madness!
I love the thought and detail put into articles like this.
Good article- thanks

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