Shorebird with App clips | Shorebird | Page 1

serene zephyr Jul 30, 2024, 12:49 AM

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Hey all, we are making an app clip and the sizing is a really big problem on our side. The flutter framework itself is 11mb and the app clip has a cap of 15mb so we need to fit our entire app in 4mb. Most of the size comes from libraries. Could shorebird help us here?

lunar latch Jul 30, 2024, 2:28 PM

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I'm not super familiar with app clips, let me take a quick look

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Looks like this is an issue with vanilla Flutter as well? https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/ios/ios-app-clip

Adding an iOS App Clip target

How to add an iOS App Clip target to your Flutter project.

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So app clips are built as part of the app? They're not built separately?

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I don't think Shorebird is going to be helpful in decreasing your app size. Shorebird adds functionality on top of Flutter, so it will never be a smaller binary than Flutter without Shorebird

fair dune Jul 30, 2024, 5:43 PM

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App Clips feel like a platform-specific feature which may not be a good fit for Flutter. (Similar to not writing iOS watch apps with flutter.)

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I'd like to have a better answer, but Flutter is choosing portability here, over platform integration. (e.g. by bundling more of its own portable code, rather than using more of the platform features)

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