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Unity Build Sizes: Why 3 Numbers Tell Different Stories
A developer built 16 Android APKs and found Unity reports three different build sizes: APK file size (17 MiB), BuildReport.totalSize (143 MiB), and packed asset sum (5.6 MiB). The discrepancy stems from measuring compressed output, raw build files, and serialized asset data separately. A custom parser using IPostprocessBuildWithReport helped clarify the metrics.
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The article is a practical debugging note for Unity developers, but its insight—that Unity's build size metrics are confusing—is niche and unlikely to interest a general tech audience.
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