This week, James is joined by friend of the show Jon Douglas, Xamarin.Android Program Manager, walks us through tweaking and optimizing our Android APKs size. He shows off several tools to help analyze and diagnose large app sizes and what options are available to automatically shrink items. *Show Links:* * [Blog: Shrinking Your Android App Size](https://aka.ms/smallerapks) * [Blog: Optimize your Xamarin.Android Builds](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/optimize-xamarin-android-builds?WT.mc_id=xamarin-ch9-jamont) * [Blog: Faster Startup Times with Startup Tracing on Android](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/faster-startup-times-with-startup-tracing-on-android?WT.mc_id=xamarin-ch9-jamont) * Find James on: [Twitter](http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), [GitHub](http://github.com/jamesmontemagno), [Blog](https://www.montemagno.com/), and his weekly podcast [Merge Conflict](http://www.mergeconflict.fm/). * [Follow @JamesMontemagno](https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno) * Never Miss an Episode: [Follow @TheXamarinShow](https://twitter.com/thexamarinshow) *Useful Links:* * Learn more about [Xamarin](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin) * [Xamarin.Forms](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin/xamarin-forms?WT.mc_id=xamarin-c9-jamont) * [Cross-platform development](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin/cross-platform) * [Xamarin Developer Center](https://aka.ms/xamarin-ch9-docs) & [Blog](http://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin) * [Microsoft Learn Self-Guided Training](http://aka.ms/learn-xamarin) * [Create a Free Account (Azure)](https://aka.ms/xamarinazurefree) * [Xamarin Developers YouTube Channel](null) * [Xamarin on Twitter](http://twitter.com/xamarinhq) #Xamarin #Android #Optimize