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I work on Amazon Prime Photos iOS app. It's currently 60mb in size, and a good chunk of that is the Swift runtime. Even the main Amazon shopping app is less t
by jamieomatthews 9y ago
I work on Amazon Prime Photos iOS app. It's currently 60mb in size, and a good chunk of that is the Swift runtime.
Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb.
- hengheng 9y agoI'll bite. In what ways can you use up 100MByte with a fancy reimplementation of an online shop? That should be enough for a text to speech engine, or a 3d engine with quite a few assets. I am being deliberately ignorant, having no idea what functionality one might add, but I'm actually genuinely curious. All that I see is a small databse and a lot of assets that are being downloaded on the fly.
- Nightshaxx 9y agoI believe it does have a text to speech engine......the Android app has one.
- acdha 9y agoI don't know the division of work between the app and server but don't forget that the app includes some level of voice recognition, and has not just a bar-code scanner but enough of a computer vision system that I can pretty reliably look up products simply by taking a picture of them.
- swrobel 9y agoThose apps are standouts but generally Amazon iOS apps are appalling. Alexa is 78MB of pure UX hell.
- abc_lisper 9y agoWait. Do you have to include the runtime with the app? That seems backwards.
- intoverflow2 9y ago>Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb. 109 on my device, not sure why it needs over 100 for a menu/search and checkout function that relies entirely on external data. Also another commenter said Alexa was 78 when it's 124 for me and does even less than the shopping app.