[FR] Reduce 158 MB FirebaseCppApp .bundle on macOS closer to its 12 MB .dll counterpart on Windows

[AdriaandeJongh]

Feature proposal

• Firebase Component: Core / Unity

The FirebaseCppApp-11_0_0.bundle file located at AppName.app/Contents/PlugIns/FirebaseCppApp-11_0_0.bundle is a whopping 159,5 MB, massively bloating the binary. Compared to the FirebaseCppApp-11_0_0.dll file located at AppName_Data/Plugins/x86_64/FirebaseCppApp-11_0_0.dll of 11,5 MB, the Firebase team seems to be a little more Windows-centric internally. Please give the macOS bundle the optimizing love it deserves!

As Firebase on Windows / Mac / Linux will soon (?) allow developers like myself to release our games with Firebase on macOS, it would be great if we can save our users the download time and storage space.

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[lukechatton]

Any updates on this? It's more than doubling the size of our release binary.

We are only using the auth module but it depends on this bundle. We will have to remove this SDK and reimplement the auth requests ourselves because an extra 160mb isn't feasible.

[walektine]

Yes, please, split bundle files by CPU arch, is it possible?

[StinkySteak]

Right now I just use the lipo tool to remove the arm64 support, now the bundle size is around 80mB which is still safe...

I made a UPM Compatible repo here: https://github.com/StinkySteak/com.google.firebase.app