1805286 - (fenix-apk-size) [meta] Investigate App size improvements

Status: NEW

(Fenix :: Performance, task, P2)

Description

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

We want to document the current state of the APK size and investigate to see what we can do to shrink the amount of space required to deliver Fenix.

Comment 1

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

First draft for the doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G_L61-LHAYDxpk9jby_jKOSmqP1E8IrOw49xNfoqoJk/edit#heading=h.vhkufvreulwd

Comment 2

[Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]]

I don't have comment access to the doc, so leaving them here:

Outside of the resources that are bundled for the frontend we deliver assets for our bundled Web Extensions, Search Plugins and a lot of JavaScript in omni.ja. Would it be possible to minify all of this in our release builds?

Minifying could be an option for omni.ja assets (if they aren't already) - we should make sure to call out that minifying also means work to include source mapping for Socorro crash reports. Otherwise, we're saving space but losing out on debugging capabilities.