I noticed their apps are high in size compared to other apps, like for example their keyboard app size is 129 MB, which is a giant size compared to other android keyboards.

Grayjay also seems to be kind of giant, compared to bravenewpipe that supports a lot of services while still very low in size.

The only app in my opinion that has kind of reasonable size is their voice recognition, while it looks kind of ugly compared to Transcribro.

Is there is a reason for all of this?

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[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Grayjay app includes an entire development environment for plugins.

No idea why the keyboard app is "large". Could it be for support on obsolete Android devices where they've needed to re-implement missing APIs and features entirely themselves (like Firefox/Fennec and the Share menu)?

They could also be using completely different local AI tooling, or a custom trained model that has a higher space footprint compared to other similar apps. As always the true answer lies in the available code...

Edit: Grayjay's = The Grayjay