Dear Google, could your iOS libGoogleAdMobAds.a be even smaller?

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1 point·seanliuxx··4 comments

This is impressive.

I agree it not makes sense for Ads frameworks to be so bigger than the App itself, and the size triple effect is impacting much.

And the calculation part is interesting and make me think a while, good analysis and thanks Sean for sharing this. The suggested solution makes sense to me.

And let's see if there are Gogglers around, looking forward to the comments indeed.

Sean, as you mentioned, seems the static library do have space wasted issues, maybe it is a good idea if just use DDL rather than static mechanism. You didn't introduce much in your post about his, is there some potential issues that Apple is not providing that as SNS, why is SNS possible? Any ideas to share?

Apple audit rejects any app using DDL. I think there is security issue with DDL by which one process/app may intrude other processes/apps' address space at run time. SNS implementation in iOS provides a uniform interface - UIActivityViewController+UIActivity which implemented most common parts, each SN just needs add a thin layer with their own logic, graphics, etc. I do not know why Apple has not provided an Ads interface/API as SNS, hope they will.

Yeah, good point, security might be a potential issue.

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