2017.1.1 Upgrade APK Size Increase + 15MB

I just upgraded my project to 2017.1.1 from 5.6 and my APK file size went from 93 MB to 108 MB. I can bring that back down to 93MB if I use Gradle as my build system but that breaks Google Play integration for me. What is going on here? Obviously I want to keep my APK <100MB for Google Play so this is a huge issue for me.

 

You can try two things:
1. Disassemble your APK file using a free ApkTool (https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/) and see what's taking space
2. Use some kind of a post-build analysis tool from the assetstore
Please post back here on the results, I'm also interested in your case

 

So I did what you asked and the results are odd,

Gradle Build System APK 96.1 MB Disassembled Folder Size 155.2 MB
Default Build System APK 111.3 MB Disassembled Folder Size 155.3 MB

When I manually compress the Disassembled Default Build folder to goes back down to 98.7 MB (instead of 111.3 MB)

So the issue does not seem to be content but compression? Not sure why or how to solve this. Any help would be appreciated.

 

I did not change the compression method I use ETC. However I am building both out of the same Unity 2017.1 project so the compression should be the same regardless.

Are you saying that the Gradle build should be larger? I need the APK to be <100 MB why would 2017.1 add that much more to the APK. On 5.6 the APK came in at 97.7 MB on the Default Built System. Adding 10% to the Android build is a huge issue for me.

I uploaded the 2 APKs to my google drive

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6DvknTUVVtOWmMxVTdOaDJ5bkU

Thanks for your help

 

Thanks for that, maybe I should just update to 2017.2 so I can see the options like in your screenshot.

 

Well it took 3 tries to upgrade (I ended up deleting the library). However at the end it I got a build out of 2017.2 (using default build engine) that was 95.8 MB which works very well for me. Thank you for all of your help.