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Are there any disadvantages to including an external Jar (e.g. the Admob Codebase) into an app that makes no use of it? I’m creating two versions of the same app, and it appears to be a lot simpler to just include it in both the ad-free and ad-supported.
So, does it simply take up more space on the phone, or does it affect performance of the app?
Proguard and the android export tool remove any methods, classes, resources, etc. that are not actually linked or used in the project. Methods you yourself have written will be culled if you don’t refer to them, so I’d be confident that the same would happen with an external JAR.
If the space free went up with the unreferencing project, then I think it’s safe to say the JAR was deemed surplus to requirements and stripped from the export.