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Developer Opens APK to Trace 0.46 MiB Size Mystery
A developer compared two Unity APK builds to find where a 0.46 MiB increase went. By treating the APK as a ZIP file and comparing entry sizes, they discovered the extra bytes were in a DLL file, not in Unity's packed-asset report. The technique reveals that APK size, BuildReport.totalSize, and packed assets measure different things.
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This is a practical debugging deep-dive for Unity developers, but the core lesson—that build reports can misattribute size—is broadly applicable to any compiled app.
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