title: smaller apk size when built with VS Code
body: <p>Greeting. I am new to flutter, and developing using VS Code on Windows 10. Both flutter and VS code are of latest versions.</p>
  <p>Lately, I noticed something rather strange. When I built the Android apk using the flutter CLI (flutter build apk --debug / --release), the output apk seems to always be about 10MB+ larger compared to those built within VS Code (through the debug &amp; release configurations in launch.json).</p>
  <p>Here's the sample apk size built in a basic flutter project created by 'flutter create':</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Builds by VS Code:<br>
  -rw-r--r-- 1 teeka 197609 57557589 Aug  8 14:45 ./build/app/outputs/flutter-apk/app-debug.apk<br>
  -rw-r--r-- 1 teeka 197609  6586727 Aug  8 14:43 ./build/app/outputs/flutter-apk/app-release.apk</p>
  <p>Builds by 'flutter build apk':<br>
  -rw-r--r-- 1 teeka 197609 70762755 Aug  8 14:45 ./build/app/outputs/flutter-apk/app-debug.apk<br>
  -rw-r--r-- 1 teeka 197609 16802483 Aug  8 14:47 ./build/app/outputs/flutter-apk/app-release.apk</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Appreciate if anyone can help offer some clarification on the discrepancy. Thanks in advance.</p>
  <p>Naturally, we all like a smaller APK size, but I wondering if there's any string attached.</p>
  <p>Thanks.</p>