When publishing, 70+ languages are shown as supported but my app only has two

Question

When I publish my app, Google Developer console shows that 70+ languages are supported on my APK but I only have two, English and Spanish (values and values-es folders).

I think this happens since I added Google Play services dependency to my project.

How can this be solved? Why is this happening?

Answer 1

You can use the resource shrinking feature of the new build system to restrict which languages are included in your APK. Specifically:

android {
    buildTypes {
        release {
            shrinkResources true
        }
    }
    defaultConfig {
        resConfigs "en", "es"
    }
}