Too large react-native release apk

Question

Created a release apk for blank react native app, after analyzing the apk, found that lib folder takes 25mb by default, is there any way this size can be reduced for universal apk ?

what i did : Created project using react-native-cli and not EXPO, was expecting lesser size based on google search, but got this

Possible duplicate of [How to reduce the react-native app size](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49993006/how-to-reduce-the-react-native-app-size) — Morrison Chang, Apr 30 '19 at 04:31
tried that but it says app is 7mb, but for me i am getting at least 27mb — Vinil Prabhu, Apr 30 '19 at 04:54
Will retract close vote if you update your question with what you've tried in detail. — Morrison Chang, Apr 30 '19 at 04:55
Retracted, recommend that you list out what is in the libs directory and see if you want to exclude x86/x64 ABI. Only current x86/x64 devices for Android would be Chromebooks (ARC++ has ARM translation layer, and ChromeOS may not be your target audience) — Morrison Chang, Apr 30 '19 at 07:07

Ako · Answer 1 · 2019-04-30T06:21:15.900

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If you check the play store react-native apps size (like airbnb, instagram) you will find out that all of react-native apps size are over 30 MB and it's normal for React-native apps to be much heavier than native apps. You can use react-native-cli instead of expo, your app size at first will be about 17 MB, It's much better i think. isn't it?

You can try this too to make it smaller. see this post on medium

edited Apr 30 '19 at 06:21

answered Apr 30 '19 at 05:48

Ako

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I am using **react-native-cli** only, still app size is always 25mb(lib) + project code – Vinil Prabhu Apr 30 '19 at 06:50

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