Android build sizes changed?

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We have built an app on Thursday(21 Jan 2016), which was 3MB in size. Last night(27 Jan 2016) we have built the same app without changes for an production environment which was 5.1MB in size. We noticed new libs appeared in the APK. This has caused our app to behave differently than before (the 21 Jan build).

Is there something we need to do, to not have these changes in our app?

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androidcodenameoneparse4cn1
Have you checked your gradle, or any script that you can make? I use to toggle the release and the debug, adding different libraries depending of the phase of the app. - Rafael Ruiz Muñoz
Are you using + on libraries version numbers? - Sandro Machado
Also check if you flipped the switch on android.includeGPlayServices. if you don't need it, add a build hint android.includeGPlayServices=false - Diamond
@Sandro, where is the + in library version numbers? - Mucking aFazing

1 Answers

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During those dates we were on a code freeze so while we did make a couple of changes they were very minor. If you have both APK's there are many reverse engineering tools for APK's on the market, you can inspect both and clarify why the size change happened.

Is it possibly due to reduced obfuscation or as Diamond suggested in the comments the inclusion of google play services?