Why take a blank Xamarin Android app about 10 mb?

Question

I tried Xamarin on my Android smartphone and installed the default "Hello world Button Click" app on it. This empty app takes up 9.3 MB on my smartphone, and I wonder if this is normal for an Android app? Maybe I did something wrong and can remove something from the default project?

Answer 1

Xamarin applications must pack the .NET runtime with each individual application. The debug versions of the application are larger by default; release versions should be smaller, and there are methods that you can use to further reduce their size.

This is discussed in detail here .