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by bhupy 1941 days ago
Considering that Uber's binary size (330MB) is comparable to similar apps such as Google Maps (224MB), Lyft (435MB), and Didi (332MB), it might just be par for the course for iOS apps.

Yelp, for example, is what you might call a "straightforward CRUD app" (to Yelp engineers, I know it's probably legit complicated and hard), and that is 292MB on the App Store.

It's probably to do with how the framework handles lifecycle management and combining static assets like text and image with business logic that lives in Controllers.

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This is par for the course for large companies with many engineers working on writing code without spending enough time on keeping app sizes low.