[BoredDev]

Maybe someone can clear this up for me. I'm struggling to understand why it is that size. I'm not going to be silly and say it would it be a simple app because I don't know enough about mobile to make that assumption.

However, I see plenty of other apps that appear to have way more complexity than the Facebook app. They are all significantly smaller. I don't understand what's happening there that requires that much bloat. The UI appears fairly minimal. From an outside perspective (probably an ignorant one), it just appears to be making API calls and throwing out the data.

Genuine question. Where is this bloat coming from? Is it just a pile of thrown on band-aid fixes and kitchen sinks, or is there something that I'm missing. Even third party applications do the same job, yet treat my battery and storage with respect. They seem to be fully capable of the same things that the official app is capable of.

Part of me wants to assume it's the whole, "move fast and break things" approach.

[mixedCase]

Facebook is known for having fairly bad code standards in their mobile apps. It's mostly a product of overengineering and feature creep.

This is a good blog post about it: http://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-pr...

And Facebook's own blog post about their Dalvik hacks and how clever they are, which speaks volumes of their development culture: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...