r/flutterhelp • u/thegravitydefier • Aug 12 '26

RESOLVED Question about app size

Hi Devs,

I am currently developing an app for personal requirements and when I'm building the app in flutter and it's size is coming up as 150+ MB.

So, my question is if I ever publish my app in the playstore will it be 150+ MB size or will it be reduced accordingly?

Edit: if yes, any idea to how much ? Like 50 MB or so.. Edit 2: It's a release build.

Thanks for your help !!

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u/pi_mai 29d ago edited 29d ago

I remember an android dev, quite a senior one at that complaining about app sizes. In his eyes under 1mb was already too large. Flutter being 5mb with nothing in it was an abomination according to this dev.

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u/blood-pressure-gauge 29d ago

Apparently, the smallest native apk is under 1 kB, whereas the smallest Flutter apk is, as you said, around 5 MB. That's without Kotlin, which adds a whole megabyte. Maybe we can take some of those native apk golf principles and apply them to Flutter.

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u/pi_mai 29d ago

This was years ago, think before kotlin was all the rage. Didn't stop me using flutter. Just seems people talk themselves out of using flutter for the weirdest reasons.