Do you want a paid wallpaper app from @MKBHD? Maybe not? Well do you want to know how its made 🤓 🧵 Looking inside the new @Panels_art app, starting with ads🎤 Ads have been a big topic Panels is using Google Ads in both iOS (GAD) & Android On Android, is the largest dependency in the dex☠️ Looking at it another way, we're monitoring over 16k classes in the entire Android app with Reaper Of that, 4,172 (25%) of classes are related to Google Ads 😬Let's look at Panels vs. other wallpaper apps iOS (install size) WallUp: 197.3 MB Wallcraft: 173 MB *Panels*: 119.4 MB @wallaroo_app: 29 MB Android (download size) Wave Live Wallpapers: 91.4 MB *Panels*: 14.5 MB Wallpapers (by Google): 2.9 MB ... why tf are some of these so big 🤦So on Panel's app size 20 MB of Panels iOS is bloat from binary symbols in the app ⚖️ There's also another couple MB of savings from optimizing images, videos, and removing duplicate filesIn the android app, two videos make up ~1/4 of the app size. The largest video is splash_screen.mp4 (2.6 MB) These type of videos are a great example of where dynamic features can be used. Once a user makes an account, they'll never see it again so the video could be offloadedWe did see the use of Kotlin in the iOS app 👀 Specifically we see Panels using Skie from @TouchlabHQ for ActionWalls 🤖Finally, some libraries Panels is using Firebase, @RevenueCat, Lottie, Kingfisher Pic is all the dynamically linked Firebase frameworksThanks to all who tagged us about this ☺️ We'll continue to monitor the Panels app and can report on any big changes 🫡 Let us know what you think and if you have any questions! Full analysis links 👇iOS analysisAndroid analysis

Do you want a paid wallpaper app from @MKBHD? Maybe not? Well do you want to know how its made 🤓 🧵 Looking inside the new @Panels_art app, starting with ads ... Ads have been a big topic Panels is using Google Ads in both iOS (GAD) & Android On Android, is the largest dependency in the dex ... ️ Looking at it another way, we're monitoring over 16k classes in the entire Android app with Reaper Of that, 4,172 (25%) of classes are related to Google Ads ... Let's look at Panels vs. other wallpaper apps iOS (install size) WallUp: 197.3 MB Wallcraft: 173 MB *Panels*: 119.4 MB @wallaroo_app: 29 MB Android (download size) Wave Live Wallpapers: 91.4 MB *Panels*: 14.5 MB Wallpapers (by Google): 2.9 MB ... why tf are some of these so big 🤦 ... So on Panel's app size 20 MB of Panels iOS is bloat from binary symbols in the app ️ There's also another couple MB of savings from optimizing images, videos, and removing duplicate files ... In the android app, two videos make up ~1/4 of the app size. The largest video is splash_screen.mp4 (2.6 MB) These type of videos are a great example of where dynamic features can be used. Once a user makes an account, they'll never see it again so the video could be offloaded ... We did see the use of Kotlin in the iOS app Specifically we see Panels using Skie from @TouchlabHQ for ActionWalls 🤖 ... Finally, some libraries Panels is using Firebase, @RevenueCat, Lottie, Kingfisher Pic is all the dynamically linked Firebase frameworks ... Thanks to all who tagged us about this ️ We'll continue to monitor the Panels app and can report on any big changes 🫡 Let us know what you think and if you have any questions! Full analysis links ... iOS analysis ... Android analysis