I was about to install PixelFed, listed in Google Play as a 13-MB app, but it demanded to delete apps before I free 500 MB. Similar thing happens with F-Droid, although it gives less data. Why? Does it not, like Flatpak on PC, list dependencies? But that’s dumb; plus, no dependency for a browsing app may take 500 MB of space, and the demands aren’t getting smaller when more apps are on device.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Android apps don’t pull in dependencies like that. But even though it’s a 13 MB download, I see when installed it’s showing me it takes up 76 MB, before I’ve even opened it for the first time.

    No, I don’t know why there is a discrepancy, nor why it told you 500 MB. But I do know the fancy new thing for apps is a split package, and usually apps require dynamic recompilation during installation, so that might be why they ask a safety margin of up to 500 MB. (But I agree it still seems high.)