Android: VLC-android-sdk increase 60MB to my apk file size

Question

My apk file size is 5MB

After adding the "de.mrmaffen:vlc-android-sdk:2.0.6" to gradle, apk size increase to 62MB.

How can I resolve it?

Note: I changed it to this, But it didn't work.

compile ("de.mrmaffen:vlc-android-sdk:2.0.6"){
   exclude group: 'io.card'
}

Crumble

VLC is big, what did you expect? I'm actually asking how big increase were you expecting. – Wotan

Answer 1

VLC uses lots of native code. As a result, it has 18-30MB of native libraries per CPU architecture. While that will be compressed somewhat in the APK, a 57MB increase in APK is actually better than I would expect.

You either need to:

• Live with it, or

• Use splits or product flavors to indicate which subset of CPU architectures you are willing to support (the library itself supports arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, mips, x86, and x86_64), or

• Do not use VLC

Basin

Instead VLC, use from what ? – Crumble

@AliRez: I have no idea. Many developers just use the native media playback APIs (e.g., MediaPlayer, SoundPool). – Basin

I haven't tried github.com/google/ExoPlayer but it may be smaller. – Wotan

yes my application size also increases from 9mb to 43mb when i add vlc android sdk in my application. but its the best player according to me. – Eichhorn