Android APK size doubled after updating to 2.9.1

[armanhossiny]

After updating to version 2.9.1, my Android release build size increased significantly.
Previously the APK was around ~50MB, but now it’s ~100MB.
It seems like asset or .so compression is no longer working, or some packaging behavior has changed.
Even the HelloWorld project output is now around 16MB.

[halx99]

Strange, but the android artifacts of CI always ~60MB

[halx99]

Chould provide a empty project for reproduce this issue?

[armanhossiny]

This file shows my game's size with both the new and old Axmol versions.
Another point is that when I extract both versions, the size of each extracted build is almost 120 MB.
I’ve checked everything and nothing comes to mind.
Both outputs were generated with the same settings.

[rh101]

Even the HelloWorld project output is now around 16MB.

Are those debug builds?

A fresh project, release build, results in this:

Debug build: