phonegap IOS application size
cordova, ios, xcode
Solution
The standard iOS App includes lots of Artwork, e.g. for the CDVCapture plugin. If you don't use the Capture API (which is likely), you could save 2.3MB by deleting the `Capture.bundle` in the Resources folder and removing `CDVCapture` from the Plugins list in the `Cordova.plist`.
Of course much of the filesize is caused by the various splash screens, icons and maybe artwork you use yourself. There is a very good way to minimize the cost of these. Get ImageOptim and drop your Xcode project folder on it. This will reduce the filesize of your images dramatically (without losing quality). One last step: Xcode recompresses all of the artwork, so they have a bigger filesize again (stupid, right?). Go to the `Build Settings` tab and type `PNG` into the search field. Set `Compress PNG files` to `NO`.
further reading on imageoptim & Xcode
The whole process should reduce your App by at least 50%, please report back how much you could achieve, thanks.
Problem
I created phonegap app for both android and IOS using eclips and xcode4.5 The size of Andorid app is 650KB The size of IOS app is 9MB!!! I created empty phonegap app (just did create on terminal) and got the same size How can I reduce the IOS application size ? Thanks!