[Interest] Qt6: Android: huge APK ?

[Alexandru Croitor]

Stripping of the libraries probably fails when Qt for Android is built on a Windows host. Please file a bug report.

> On 6. Jul 2022, at 14:50, Alexander Dyagilev <alervdvcw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Downloaded Android 6.4.0 - same sizes.
> 
> On my Ubuntu, yes, libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so is around 2-4MB (do not remember exact size).
> 
> So, it seems it's just Windows. What is going on?...
> 
> On 7/6/2022 9:57 AM, Alexandru Croitor wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Which host platform are you using? Also consider trying with a newer Qt version than 6.3.1.
>> 
>> At least on macOS, the libQt6Qml library sizes are ok for me.
>> 
>> ls -lh ../6.1.3/android_armv7/lib/libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 alex  staff   2.6M Aug 27  2021 ../6.1.3/android_armv7/lib/libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so
>> 
>> ls -lh ../6.2.4/android_armv7/lib/libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 alex  staff   2.7M Mar  7 20:24 ../6.2.4/android_armv7/lib/libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so
>> 
>> ls -lh ../6.3.1/android_armv7/lib/libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 alex  staff   2.7M Jun  6 21:04 ../6.3.1/android_armv7/lib/libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so
>> 
>>> On 5. Jul 2022, at 21:51, Alexander Dyagilev <alervdvcw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> APK sizes for my application (release version, armv7a, built using Qt Creator):
>>> 
>>> Qt 5.12.12 - 37 MB.
>>> Qt 6.1.3     - 216 MB.
>>> 
>>> What is going on?
>>> 
>>> I've compared Qt's sizes. It seems Qt6 is much bigger. For example:
>>> 
>>> libQt5Qml.so                          - 4.4 MB
>>> libQt6Qml_armeabi-v7a.so -  92 MB
>>> 
>>> Qt Creator "forgets" to strip symbols? Something else? I don't want to believe that it's OK and now all Qt apps under Android has to be 200+ MB of size.
>>> 
>>> 
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