Ask HN: Why do Android apps take up so much disk?
My phone warned me today that it was running low on space. After looking through my Downloads and pictures for a bit I decided to clean up apps. I don&#x27;t really use many apps on my phone which is why this wasn&#x27;t my go-to in the first place.<p>The below numbers are just app storage (I imagine binary size on disk?):<p>Chrome (for reference, reasonable) - 187 MB<p>Capital One - 91 MB<p>Storage - 78 MB<p>Digital Secure (no idea what this is) - 69 MB<p>Email - 66 MB<p>Calendar - 28 MB<p>Contacts - 22 MB<p>Clock - 21 MB<p>Calculator (for reference, reasonable) - 1.7 MB<p>So I don&#x27;t work in the mobile space - can someone explain to me why these (mostly stock) apps take up so much space on disk? How come my stock Clock app is 1&#x2F;9th the size of Chrome?