Android SDK specific resources in the APK

Question

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As highlighted in the image i am observing that APK contains all the Android SDk specific resources in it and is making APK size bigger by 3 MB.

Any one help me how can i avoid this during the application build.

I was using compileSDKVersion 23. After migrating to 30 i am seeing this issue.

Any help would be much appriciated.

I was using compileSDKVersion 23. After migrating to 30 i am seeing this issue.

I would like t use the compileSDKVersion 30 and i am expecting that apk shouldn't contain the android sdk resources as i am not referring to those in my app.

Answer 1

ShrinkResources is useful to reduce the dimension of your generated APK, stripping out any unused resource.

buildTypes {
    release {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        multiDexEnabled true
        minifyEnabled true
        shrinkResources true
        
    }
}