iOS ArcGIS SDK Size (specifically libArcGIS.a)

[benboral]

Howdy ESRI,

Thank you for the fantastic board with many helpful answers by ESRI folks.

I have been playing with the SDK, and it's fantastic. But I have a concern about deploying an app with the SDK through the AppStore. The libArcGIS.a file is 77MB, which is big.

I noticed ESRI's ArcGIS app in the AppStore is only 15MB. How do I ensure that my app is a minimal size (preferably under 20MB) while using the SDK with its large libArcGIS.a file?

Thanks much,
Ben

[RickJones · Accepted solution]

My iOS app is  10.3 MB, using the libArcGIS.a.

I don't know how they do it.

[benboral]

Thanks Rick,

That answer is good enough for me. Gonna go ahead and finish this project and submit it to the AppStore.

[EricIto]

Although the static lib is very large, your final application will only link in the objects in which it references, or ones that depend on objects it references.

This process is known as "smart linking"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(computing)#Linking