Reduce apk size by encoding colors using enums

[An-anonymous-coder]

Currently all images are stored as low quality assets using the standard RGB color space with 16,777,216 colors. There are optimizations that can be done here:

1. Use a more compressed format such as jpeg to reduce the size, since no transparency is being used here and thus png files are not needed.

2. Store each unique color as an enum, and create an image encoding/decoding function that will reduce the size of images by storing a pixel as a single incremental number instead of 3 bytes for the RGB values.

As an example, if you had an image that was only 100 red pixels (#FF0000), you don't need to store all 300 bytes of the image. Just create an enum such that 0=0xFF0000 and then store the image as 100 of the number 0 (reducing the size to 100 bits).

I code in C++, so the implementation of this may be slightly different in C, but the principal is the same.

[An-anonymous-coder]

If you need, I can make a mockup using Python or C++.

[VadimBoev]

The bird has transparency...

[An-anonymous-coder]

The bird has transparency, yes. Method 2 will still work for the bird. Method 1 will work for all assets that do not have transparency, and can be combined with method 2 for even more compression.

[VadimBoev]

The bird has transparency, yes. Method 2 will still work for the bird. Method 1 will work for all assets that do not have transparency, and can be combined with method 2 for even more compression.

I was thinking about it once, the problem is that any jpg decoders are very heavy, so this will increase the weight significantly. I'm closing this topic.