Techniques for Reducing Android NDK .so Size: Code, Build, and Dependency Optimization
The article shows how to shrink Android NDK .so binaries by over 30% through code de‑duplication, disabling exceptions/RTTI/iostream, using fine‑grained sections with LTO and dead‑code elimination, limiting exported symbols via version scripts, employing JNI dynamic registration, and consolidating C++ runtime dependencies into a shared library.