2025-01-30 11:05
React Native 0.73, which is used in Expo SDK 50, bumped the Android minSdkVersion to 23. This had the side effect of changing the default value of extractNativeLibs to false.
If set to false, your native libraries are stored uncompressed in the APK. Although your APK might be larger, your application loads faster because the libraries load directly from the APK at runtime.
For Android, you can use Android APK Analyzer or apktool to inspect the contents of your app。
To analyze JavaScript bundles, use Expo Atlas. You may find libraries that you thought were very small actually have a large impact on the bundle