1807331 - Consider stripping coroutine debugger facilities to reduce APK size (by how much?)

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: General, task, P2)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

From github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20828.

The kotlin coroutines documentation mentions:

The kotlinx-coroutines-core artifact contains a resource file that is not required for the coroutines to operate normally and is only used by the debugger. To exclude it at no loss of functionality, add the following snippet to the android block in your Gradle file for the application subproject:

packagingOptions {
 exclude "DebugProbesKt.bin"
}

We could try stripping it, especially only for debug builds, to reduce the size of the APK. I imagine the impact is small but the effort seems small.

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Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:cpeterson, could you have a look please?

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