Inside Instant Apps

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" summary

Deep dive into Instant Apps internals with concrete results: an implementation that automates conversion from 4 weeks to 4 minutes, converted 25 open-source apps including Firefox and Frozen Bubble, and runs a transitive dependency analysis on bytecode plus resources by using DexGuard to analyze code and resources to partition code into base and feature APKs, run shrinking/obfuscation per module, refactor common static intent helpers, and surface size and permission limits so some apps still need manual trimming to meet Play Store constraints.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Instant Apps
2. 3:59Instant Apps Overview
3. 13:44Refactoring Existing Apps
4. 19:29Automated Dependency Analysis
5. 23:43Tool Implementation Demo
6. 25:09Testing 25 Open-Source Apps
7. 31:55Conclusions and Future

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