Anyone have a general idea of the iOS app size increase implications using the kotlinx serialization...

# serialization

[Gene Cahill]

Anyone have a general idea of the iOS app size increase implications using the kotlinx serialization protobuf library? Adding the library to our ios code with 5 very small @Serializable classes has resulted in a 377 Kb increase in app size. Does this sound correct? Is the majority of the cost coming from the library or generated code - and how does with scale when adding significantly more Serializable classes?

[rnett]

The generated serializer for @Serializable classes is format-independent, so you can try only including -core (or -json) and comparing that to the protobuf format, which I suspect is most of your size increase.

[Gene Cahill]

protobuf serialization is the only one we are going to use