How to reduce the size of my iPhone application?

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I have reduce an iOS app from 90MB to 50MB in the last few monthes. Here are some tips and tools:

To Profile iOS App Size

1. unzip your ipa to check resources like video, font and images files.

2. Profile your binary file by library and object files(classes) using Linkmap file and XCode Linkmap Parser.

To Reduce Image Files

• use ImageOptim-CLI to automatic the image compress process
• use Unused-image to find unused image files

To Reduce Binary File

• Strip debug symbols
• Find unused imports using fui