package size reduction

Tencent Music Tech Team

Feb 5, 2021 · Mobile Development

Flutter iOS Package Size Optimization: Analysis and Implementation

The article examines why adding Flutter to an iOS app inflates the binary, breaks down the framework’s largest parts—engine, AOT snapshot, assets, and ICU data—and details a three‑pronged strategy of compression, externalization and stripping, using custom build scripts to move or delete files and dynamically load data, achieving roughly a 12 MB size reduction.