For iPhone users, internal storage is one of the common problems so
it becomes necessary for the iPhone mobile app developers to develop
their apps lightweight.
How many times has the following message
flashed on your iPhone and you have felt like someone has put a rope
around you and you will have wiggle out of it?
STORAGE ALMOST FULL: You can manage your storage in Settings.
And you are left grumbling or squirming at the screen. Life can be tough indeed and cache makes it tougher.
For
those wanting to understand this better, here is a practical example
which many have to deal with. For instance, you have an iPhone with 16GB
of internal space where 4GB is already reserved for the operating
software and the plethora of iOS apps. Now with the limited space at
hand you have to manage your documents, photographs, videos and when you
run out of space your iPhone won’t allow you to snap pictures or record
videos either. All this leads to disappointing space constraints.
This problem can be tackled at the iPhone app development
stage itself because while much can’t be done about the storage space
taken up by the OS, the space taken by apps can be tweaked if the mobile
app developer keeps the app lightweight with the following ways:
Understanding ‘App Thinning’
Apple’s App Distribution Guide explains app thinning as:
The
store and operating system optimize the installation of iOS (in this
case), tvOS, and watchOS apps by tailoring app delivery to the
capabilities of the user’s particular device, with minimal footprint.
This optimization, called APP THINNING, lets you create apps that use
the most device features, occupy minimum disk space, and accommodate
future updates that can be applied by Apple.
In other words, the
breaking down of code into series of code to be employed by an iOS app
developers to set the segments of the codes for the user to utilize in
bits as required.
Now the three components of app thinning which
leave more space for other apps, content and bring about an overall
better app experience are:
Slicing
It is
the process of creating and delivering variants of the app bundle for
different types of target devices. A variant contains only the kind of
architecture and resources that are needed for the target device. App
developers continue to develop and upload full versions of their apps to
iTunes Connect. The store will create and deliver different variants
based on the devices a respective iPhone supports. Image resources are
sliced as per their resolution and device family. Graphics Processing
Units resources are sliced in line with their device capabilities. When
the user installs an app from the App Store, an adaptation for the
user’s device is downloaded and installed.
Bitcode
Intermediate
representation of a compiled program is called a bitcode. The apps that
are uploaded to iTunes Connect (app record) that contain bitcode will
be compiled and linked on the store. Including bitcode will allow Apple
to re-optimize an app’s binary in the future without the need for the
app developer to submit a new version of the app to the store. So the
developers can repeat-optimize the iOS app code without submitting a new
variant every time.
On-demand Resources
On-demand
resources are those app contents that are hosted separately from the
complete app bundle on the app store for download.
Resources such
as images and sounds are hosted by the store on Apple servers and the
downloads are managed for you. An iPhone app developers needs to tag
every resource when building the app with keywords and request in
groups. These resources enable faster downloads and lead to smaller app
sizes, giving an improved first-time launch experience.
These
resources run in the background in a transparent manner without any
interference, providing the needed features as required while the user
goes about exploring the iOS App Developers.
On carrying out the above functions, the end user will face the dilemma
of deleting their dear apps to create space a lot less frequently.
So,
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