Ionic resources make release very big

After I used ionic resources to generate splash images. The release of the app grows into very big like 50MB bigger.

Then I unpack the app to check. I found I have some splash images like 10MB each. I feel it’s crazy.

What’s the right way to use those resource files?

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Make them smaller manually.

Use some free image processing tool like Paint.Net. 10MB is simply too large for a splash screen image.

Or you can create a pure JavaScript based splash screen: http://www.gajotres.net/using-views-events-to-create-javascript-pure-ionic-splash-screen/

Thanks for the reply. After I read that article about JS base splash, I really accept the idea and want to give up the splash screen plugin. Becuase it can build more flexible one and reuse one image in different resolutions.

BTW: I still feel generate the 10mb image in the app is a bug in ionic resources. It should be compressed.

I agree, that’s a huge problem, literally and metaphorically. :wink:

It’s not so easy to disable the splash of iOS.
I just checked my graphic work. Found out a photo makes the PNG so big.

I removed it then everything looks fine.
It’s better resources support JPG. I don’t know is it possible.