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by MichaelStubbs 4585 days ago
The usefulness extends to mobile platforms as well. While (AFAIK) the Android SDK optimises images to some minor extent as default when building an APK, I still like to run the images through various tools to get the best result.

On one of my previous apps, this resulted in a filesize decrease of approximately 300 kilobytes - effectively halving my apps size with no noticeable difference to the end user. Win!