To be fair, Jerboa barely has any assets. Basically just an SVG and a few WebPs for the icon and that's it.

Those can increase the size of the app really fast. Think something like just a nice welcome screen with like 5 pages with images that shows you how to use the basics of the app: right there already you need to include those in a few different resolutions for different form factors. Probably at least a few MBs just for that.

It does help to not include proprietary bloated libraries, but code size is not what generally makes the average app big, it's the assets. Liftoff is 10MB, Thunder is 26MB, they both have a bit more visual stuff than Jerboa.

Open-source doesn’t correlate to this lol

I used to store my operating system and all important applications on a single 400KB 3.5" microfloppy for my Mac 512K.

That has to be compressed, right? My play store version is 17.7mb

Anyone checked the .APK from GitHub?

Update: 3,34MB 😄

That is fucking crazy. That is basically two orders of magnitudes less than many other social media apps while still having most of the same functions.

Absolutely crazy to me lol