Question:
I have an Android application that occupies me a lot and 90% of the total is due to 3 files that I don't know if they can be deleted or what would happen if I delete them.
The first one is fileSnapShots.bin, located in .gradle / 2.10 / taskArtifacts, it takes 22MB, what happens if I delete it? Can I do without it? It's very heavy…
The second and third is app-debug and app-debug-unaligned, located in app \ build \ outputs \ apk, do they both work? 9MB between the two
The third one is mockable-android-23, located in \ build \ generated, I suppose this serves to be able to run the app in android studio, but it weighs almost 23MB.
Can any of this be erased?
Answer:
I answer your questions:
- All the content of the
.gradlefolder within the project directory can be removed but will be created again when you build the project.
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As for the
\buildfolder, it contains files that are generated when compiling, you can delete the content of this folder which in turn contains\generatedand\intermediates.If you delete this folder you will see considerably reduced space on your disk , but remember that when compiling they are generated again.
- The files contained within the
app\build\outputs\apkfolder are .apk generated, one not aligned which you can align using the Zipalign tool, and the other, an aligned .apk which is a candidate to upload to the playstore but only if This was signed with your production Keystore, this is very important.