APK Size increase about 30MB

[hieuwu]

I am integrating amazon-chime-sdk into Android app. The APK file increase drastically 30MB.
I already exclude amazon-chime-sdk-machine-learning, amazon-chime-sdk-media, amazon-chime-sdk-media-no-video-codecs
Is this increase expected?

[georgezy-amzn]

@hieuwu, you do need one of the media SDK in order to start a Chime SDK meeting session. It is expected if you are both importing amazon-chime-sdk and one of the media SDKs. How did you measure the apk size? Could you follow this link?

[hieuwu]

Hi @georgezy-amzn
This is how I added the SDK:

def MEDIA_VERSION = "0.23.0"
implementation("software.aws.chimesdk:amazon-chime-sdk-media-no-video-codecs:$MEDIA_VERSION")
implementation ("software.aws.chimesdk:amazon-chime-sdk:$MEDIA_VERSION") {
  exclude module: 'amazon-chime-sdk-media'
  exclude module: 'amazon-chime-sdk-machine-learning'
}

I used APK Analyzer and noticed that, in a project that has configurations for ndk arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64, all .so files will be included in the APK with normal build e.g ./gradlew assembleDebug.
That explains for the reason why the APK size increases drastically ~30MB. In app build.gradle

defaultConfig {
    ndk {
        abiFilters 'arm64-v8a', 'armeabi-v7a', 'x86', 'x86_64'
    }
}

Comparison from APK Analyzer

Understanding that x86 is not supported, it's worth mentioning this kind of change when we integrate amazon-chime-sdk-android into current project that has some configurations with native libraries

[georgezy-amzn]

Please note

• The version for amazon-chime-sdk and amazon-chime-sdk-media-no-video-codecs could be different. Here is an example: https://github.com/aws/amazon-chime-sdk-android/releases/tag/v0.17.10
• When the apk is installed, only the libs matching the device arch will be installed, so it won't increase 30MB on the device, the downloading size could also be optimized if you are using AAB.