Open-sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster - Facebook Engineering
Last fall we announced ReDex, a tool for reducing the size of Android apps to improve performance. At the time, we were working on optimizations such as minification, inlining, and dead code elimination to make the bytecode smaller, but we hadn’t yet put them to the test in production. Now we have! In November, we [...]Read More...
12 Apr 2016 ... In November, we shipped the first ReDex-optimized version of Facebook for Android, which was 25 percent smaller and had up to 30 percent ...