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Code shrinking with R8 — Clarity Today

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Code shrinking with R8

Enabling R8 on release builds, its effect on dex payload, and the deobfuscation mapping file it adds to the bundle.

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R8 pays for a halved download with a 3.83 MB map that Play never delivers

A Capacitor puzzle build now delivers 5.88 MB where it once delivered 13.09 MB, yet the bundle on disk barely moved, because R8 writes a 3.83 MB deobfuscation map that Play keeps and never sends to a phone.

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Adoption15
Hype gap+8
Incentives30

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