Cached memory, some apps give an option to clear it but considering GBs of storage, few MBs of cached data doesn’t matter

Cache is 0. Just cleared that  
 Is there more than meets the eye?

Consultant

Some photos and other stuff don’t need to reload every time instead it stays cached in memory, app doesn’t need yo request to server multiple times to fetch the data instead it stays already loaded on the device.

Software Engineer

You download a zip file. 
  
 Though not sure why the need to use "mansplain" here. Not cool.

It's Internet way of asking to be explained as if I am dumb

That's the apk size. Not the extracted installed size

Btw, how’s USA election manipulation/support to Trump going on? If he wins then he will offer you DOGE, anyways the way you use X after 44 billion dollars acquisition is now seems worth and huge if he wins then beneficial for your business and ultimately beneficial to human beings exploring space and better internet connectivity for world. 
  
 I’m still skeptical about FSD Tesla, but the way AI has been proliferating, hopefully we will see better stuff in a decade.

Founder

I guess folks at grapevine have figured out the Middle-Out algorithm. Hopefully they came up with it in a more dignified way lol.

When you download an apk, it's in the compressed form. After the installation the app size differs based on the app usage.

Gotcha, more like packed suitcase that you open when reaching the destination

DevOps Engineer

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Can someone mansplain this to me - why app size is 32MB on playstore and 85MB on storage?

Can someone mansplain this to me - why app size is 32MB on playstore and 85MB on storage?- Grapevine

I just want to understand in simple terms, how come an iPhone with very little RAM and full storage works smoother than an Android with tons of RAM and storage.

Is it something which android can't do?

Why iOS works faster than android?

Was listening to Punjabi songs yesterday for around 2-3 hours, 1.5GB data khtm hogya.
Also, nothing was running in the background 
It didn't happen in the past, weird??

Why are music streaming apps consuming heavy data

Growth Manager

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Now on this post just let me highlight few points as read from CCI vs google legal battle.
1. Google incentivize all the android manufacturere to not preload any app store(eg: thats why samsung store is laying like a undercontructed producted ).
2. To pre load any of google aap the OEM has to put all the apps that google want or esle play security wont pass.
3. You can not host any app which redirect to another app store or behave like app store on play store.
As you can see how google used android , a "open source" eco system to force this google play billing system.
Now android occupy 94% of user base here so its either on play store or you miss market. Sideloading is errered with crazy level of steps and warnings to prevent on play store app deployment.
And as a bonus as google TnC say you can use 3rd party billing for "digital services" why is youtube still on play store it dont use google play billing system.
Also google want the payment details of every transaction. Basically it want to study next profitable business to either buy it or clone it and with transaction details its much easier.

Delisting of 10 apps and the startups vs google

Software Developer

This is absolutely harsh from Google

Why isn't GMail updating since weeks in Android?

Everyone wants Google's distribution, but no one wants to pay for it.

Everyone wants Google to stop doing what it's doing, but no one wants to invest in an alternative.

Alternatives, if any coming up, from India will be of cheap quality. Does anyone remember what happened to BharatOS, or what's happening with Krutrim. 

What these app developers are not realising is that, their business is more or less happening because Android as an OS is there. It's not just about play store. 

I wonder why they're not cribbing against the Apple app store. 

Could the rates be lower? Yes.
But what's in it for Google or Apple when that entire section of business is because of them?

No one is stopping anyone from building a new OS, a better one. As long as a good quality one is not coming up, everyone will have to rely on Google or Apple. 

It feels really bad when the founders try to make it a national issue as well 🤦🏻‍♂️

Oh, and even if a new OS comes up, I wonder how they're going to sustain it, plus make people choose that without the availability of other apps.

Rant about Google Play Store

Product Manager

Why grapewine is requested external storage access?

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So short story long, I was just checking out my latest credit card bills and saw a notification in red on the home section of cred app calling out that your app is outdated please install the latest version.

Once I opened the playstore and check the app it showed that no updates were pending but when I opened the app again it showed the same message and when I clicked download latest version it routed me back to the playstore listing and now the message is gone.

Does it qualify as some sort of weird app traffic generation logic?

And the short story long part is Maan I hate my credit card bills wtf. Like can't they just like waive off the bills if I have been paying it on time for years now atleast for one month they be like yeah dude you are paying a lot let cred take some burden off of you.

I'm acoustic nevermind.

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Security engineer

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Do PMs wonder what more I can do to improve a particular app?? As a PM aspirant, sometimes I analyze an app and think it has so many features what more does it need??

How far can an app go??

Anyone using Google One? 
My free storage is kinda at 98%.
Are there any other services.
(P.S my WhatsApp chats are backed up on g drive too)

Google One?

So Samsung has messed up this big time, I received the update today now it's has increased the icon size soo large it looks annoying, didn't find any settings to reduce icon size.

Maybe they fixed icon size for all phone and it's designed for ultra size phone so looks messy on smaller phone 🤔

don't update to one UI 6 yet

Backend engineer

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For instance on Grapevine, if I share a post link to someone, and they open the link, they are taken to play store rather than a webpage with the post. They could instead show a banner to download the app on the webpage to download the app like how quora and reddit do.

I hate platforms that requires downloading app to consume content

e.g in my case:

1. I go for a walk almost everyday around 12:30ish AM (in HSR). Helps me process how my day went. 

2. Whenever I used to book a rapido bike/scooty, i used to drive it myself with the rapido driver as pillion. (just asked them nicely, 90% of them didn't refuse). Now I have my own bike though.

3. Most of the time when I have traveled in a train, i travel in the general box of trains. Only to connect/listen to stories of that section of our society, even though i could afford tickets for other classes.


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