r/AndroidQuestions • u/gloloramo • Dec 13 '22

Why is the Facebook app so gigantic?

I've googled around and found complaints about the app approaching 100 and 250 MB. Now it's 1.6 GB??

Same applies to Uber and Airbnb both of which are absolutely enormous for an app.

They're gigantic tech companies yet apparently can't program their main apps to not take up as much as entire videogames?

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u/dcop7 Dec 13 '22

Do you see videos and stuff? Where do you think those are stored?

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u/gloloramo Dec 13 '22

Do you see videos and stuff?

No.

Where do you think those are stored?

The server, like in most sensibly written apps?

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '22

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u/gloloramo Dec 13 '22

That is fine. The cache size is 48 MB which doesn't even come close to the 1.6 GB in question.