There's a few other apps that are ridiculously big. Like the DJI Mimo app. It's an app I need for my DJI Mic, to change 4 settings on it. It needs 800MB for that which is absolutely ridiculous. Also I need to sign up for an account to use it even though the Mic works completely locally and it just changes the settings over USB.

It's absolutely fucking ridiculous to have an 800MB app for this and the reason is just marketing. It's full of stupid videos promoting their stuff. And the account just causes stupid spam. I should have returned the damn thing to be honest.

Ps pardon my french but I'm really annoyed about this and in this case it's warranted in my opinion. 800MB is ridiculous.

The article is the question though, the question deserved to be asked.

And Gmail deserve to be shamed for shipping almost a gigabyte of stuff for a mailbox. Wouldn't be surprised if they accidentally/intentionally built the whole youtube client in there.

Right! I was looking forward to some insight into what's in that thing, but there was nothing.

Why IS the Gmail app 700MB?

It's not just Gmail. Most of the popular apps on iOS are literally 10x bigger than their Android versions. It's hard to find a popular iOS app that's smaller than an Electron app.

Biggest Google Apps for me:

Gboard 247MB

Google 415MB

Google Play Services 1330MB

Google Play Store 165MB

Messages 321MB

Gmail 233MB

As usual, the answer to a question in the title is “no”. ;)

I've noticed in general android apps have been shrinking in size for several years. I'm not sure if recent LLM trends are changing that again.