This article explains the inner workings of Android's compiled XML format, demonstrates how to parse and manipulate its binary chunks, and presents a step‑by‑step optimization that removes namespaces and attribute names to reduce APK size by up to 28 % while handling compatibility issues.
This article explains the motivation behind adopting the Shadow plugin architecture for QQ Reading, compares modular and plugin approaches, details class‑loader mechanisms, walks through Shadow's core components and loading flow, and shares practical usage tips and lessons learned.
To shrink Meituan’s Android APK, developers can optimize the ZIP layout, enable ProGuard/R8 dex shrinking, inline R fields, convert images to WebP or VectorDrawable, disable redundant PNG crunching, activate shrinkResources, limit packaged languages, obfuscate resources with tools like AndResGuard, and eliminate duplicate or unused assets.
This article explains how WeChat's resource obfuscation tool, AndResGuard, renames and compresses Android resources, modifies the resources.arsc binary, and combines 7‑zip compression to reduce APK size by about 1 MB while increasing anti‑tampering difficulty.
