[jamieomatthews]

I work on Amazon Prime Photos iOS app. It's currently 60mb in size, and a good chunk of that is the Swift runtime.

Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb.

[hengheng]

I'll bite. In what ways can you use up 100MByte with a fancy reimplementation of an online shop? That should be enough for a text to speech engine, or a 3d engine with quite a few assets.

I am being deliberately ignorant, having no idea what functionality one might add, but I'm actually genuinely curious. All that I see is a small databse and a lot of assets that are being downloaded on the fly.

[acdha]

I don't know the division of work between the app and server but don't forget that the app includes some level of voice recognition, and has not just a bar-code scanner but enough of a computer vision system that I can pretty reliably look up products simply by taking a picture of them.

[Nightshaxx]

I believe it does have a text to speech engine......the Android app has one.

[intoverflow2]

>Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb.

109 on my device, not sure why it needs over 100 for a menu/search and checkout function that relies entirely on external data.

Also another commenter said Alexa was 78 when it's 124 for me and does even less than the shopping app.

[swrobel]

Those apps are standouts but generally Amazon iOS apps are appalling. Alexa is 78MB of pure UX hell.

[abc_lisper]

Wait. Do you have to include the runtime with the app? That seems backwards.