I don't understand why some mobile app are so large.
If Twitter can write a webpage that provides the functionality in only 1Mb then what is in the mobile app?
If Twitter can write a webpage that provides the functionality in only 1Mb then what is in the mobile app?
That doesn't include the 17 other frameworks all over 1Mb in size (there are innumerable other smaller frameworks) for periscope and other features.
Seems to me they could ship a 5Mb app that just wraps the Twitter web site and provides iOS native experience (notifications, apple watch, etc) and call it a day.
I believe that, currently, if you iOS app uses any Swift code, you have to include the Switch libraries in your app. This has something to do with how quickly Swift has been changing, and Apple wanting you to reference your own library instead of the system one for now.
This has caused a number of apps to balloon in size lately, but the hope is that it is temporary.
It is unfortunate that apps can't dynamically link to standard swift libraries in the OS, but that still doesn't explain the other 150Mb of binaries.