IONIC Android Apk File size Way Too Big ! how to decrease the size of app for android?

Question

I have developed the app using ionic 3 and now while generating android apk file it \'s size getting way too big.

before the API integration The File Size Wa

Answer 1

For people running into that issue with newer versions of Ionic:

In Ionic 4.3 there seems to be a bug in the build scripts. If you run a debug build, and then a release/production build, the www folder is not cleared and you will have all the sourcemap (.js.map) files in the www folder and thus in the final apk file.

See https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/issues/3954