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Estimated app size increased considerably on newest Unity.

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by 5argon, Sep 18, 2014.

  1. 5argon

    5argon

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    I recently upgraded to OSX Yosemite so I could use the new XCode 6 Beta to build to my iOS8 device. This requires me to download the latest Unity to avoid build errors at XCode.

    However, when I press Archive and then goes to press the "Estimate App Size" button, normally it would take a while to compute and shows something 50MB-ish but now it's skyrocketed to 120 MB.

    The "Complete Size" in Editor.log is the same as before, 90 MB. I wondered why estimated app size changed?

    Edit : Even the new XCode 6 (Not beta) have increased app size as well.
     
    Last edited: Sep 19, 2014
    5argon, Sep 18, 2014
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  2. Ale Moreno

    Ale Moreno

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    For us the same, our app has increased from 90MB to 240MB.
    Did you get something about this?
     
    Ale Moreno, Sep 24, 2014
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  3. rextr09

    rextr09

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    I see an increase from 60mb to 97mb. I think it's related with compression as the installed size seems to be same.
     
    rextr09, Sep 27, 2014
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  4. 5argon

    5argon

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    I have some progress to report.

    When the app is finally "Ready for sale", the actual size that user will download reduced down to what it should be. Could this be some Unity bug causing XCode to estimate app's size wrong?
     
    5argon, Oct 5, 2014
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  5. eintopf

    eintopf

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    Just noticed the same issue. If I use the estimate button on older archives, then sometimes also very large file sizes occur (but they were released with much less MB then stated by XCode).

    I think this is an XCode related issue.
     
    eintopf, Oct 6, 2014
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  6. poolts

    poolts

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    I'm also getting this issue (using v4.5.4f1) Testflight is reporting an ipa size of 45MB and the estimated app size is 156 MB. Using Xcode version 6.0.1
     
    poolts, Oct 20, 2014
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