Cordova Application size huge increase after adding Crosswalk web View plugin [VS 2015]

Question

I am building a simple cordova app using framework7 in vs community edition 2015, the default app build apk size is around ~ 3 mb, as for using smooth transitions etc. I ended up using crosswalk web view embed, but after embedding the apk size have jumped to ~29 mb in size and no matter i tried cannot find any solution to it. the official crosswalk library claims a increase of only 15 mb in current size of application, while what i am getting is too much.

Target Device is android. Cordova CLR version is 6.0.0 , target andorid is 4.0+

any help would be much appreciated. thanks

Answer 1

I created a blank cordova project and added cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview. Then build it into apk files. I got two output files with plugin: android-armv7-release-unsigned.apk : 22.7 mb and android-x86-release-unsigned.apk: 26.2 mb. Without plugin : android-release-unsigned.apk : 261 kb.

I uncompressed android-x86-release-unsigned.apk file and found out that the file libxwalkcore.so is significantly huge, almost 50 mb:

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So I think you are having the correct output. The downloaded library will give an increase of 22 to 26 mb in size.

the official crosswalk library claims a increase of only 15 mb in current size of application

It could probably be the result of documentation update's delay. You can report this issue to the CrossWalk official website.