How to Reduce React Native Apk size | 30MB to 10MB

In this blog post you will find out who to reduce React native APK size with only 2 little changes in one file. 


React native latest version giving us 30MB APK size by default, that very large as you know. 

So let's Start












Step 1: go to android/app

Step 2: open build.gradle file


Step3: enableProguardInReleaseBuilds and enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture  make both false to true.



Step4: cd android && ./gradlew clean (for clean last output of apk)


Step5: cd android && ./gradlew assemblerelease (for create new apk files)

Now go to build/outputs/apk/debug/ folder, you will find 4 types of apk files. you will see reduced the apk size from around should be 30mb to 10mb.


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