On: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

[datadrivenangel]

Google and others are putting 2FA notifications in their regular apps like gmail. I had to open my gmail app to get a 2FA code instead of my google authenticator app today... which is very weird and probably increases the needed security of the gmail app in addition to the size

[SoftTalker → datadrivenangel]

They use the YouTube app for this also.

[inetknght → datadrivenangel]

You really think 2FA notifications cause so much bloat?

[datadrivenangel → inetknght]

Google Auth on ios is 38MB. Assuming the core code is probably ~5-50%, which would be 2-20MB added to the gmail app.

On the middle side of that range, extra features adds up fast.