Android Question 2 machines, same source, different APK sizes

[sorex]

Hello,

I noticed this morning that my APK made at home (Win7 32 bit) is 200Kb bigger than when being compiled on this Win8 64 bit.

I thought it was the SDK that was out of sync and it was.

I just updated both machines to the same build tools, repos and google play stuff.

And now the one compiled on this machine is even 300Kb smaller (was 200 before)

The 5 core libs and additional threading lib have the same version number in the lib panel.

Any idea what else might be different?

 

[sorex]

most changes are in the META-INF & res folder.

in the META-INF file I see tha one uses java 1.7.0_79 and the other one 1.8.0_45

in the res folder are 2 more drawable folders and the filesize of the already existing files are bigger aswell.

should I just upgrade my java 1.7 to 1.8?

 

[DonManfred]

I suggest to have IDENTIC configurations... Same JAVA Version, same SDK, same Buildtools...
1.8.0_45 is old... most up to date is 102 or so....

 

[KMatle]

should I just upgrade my java 1.7 to 1.8

You should generally update Java due to security updates.

 

[sorex]

updating both JRE & SDK?

 

[DonManfred]

updating both JRE & SDK?

Yes
Goal is to have the same version on both machines.
Start with updating java

 

[sorex]

should I go for the 32 or 64 bit version for the 64 bit machine? or will they spit out the same apk anyway?

 

[DonManfred]

or will they spit out the same apk anyway?

don´t know...

i suggest to have both systems identic. 32bit on both sides or 64bit on both sides.

 

[sorex]

32 bit java jre & sdk on the 32 bit box
64 bit java jre & sdk on the 64 bit box
path changed to the new folders

identical APK files on both machines now (the smallest size)

me happy \o/

thanks guys!