What are some of the drawbacks of using support package for Android?
How much does it impact the size of the application and possibly performance?
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The advantage the support package gives you in terms of up-to-date UI design & additional ways to get your app more performant (i.e. Loaders) is way bigger than the 200kb or so additional data and about 0 performance loss.
If you want exact numbers try adding the compatibility package to some app.