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Reducing app bundle size

26 September 2022 by Brian Hearn android, code, debugging, xamarin

Introduction In my Play Store Organic Traffic post I commented that I need to work on ASO (App Store Optimisation) for my app Seed:Loops . Since then my conversion rate has dropped further to a shade under 15%. The app file size is a potential reason for a low conversion rate as explained in the Google Play Console. App size can affect your app’s install and uninstall metrics, so it’s important to monitor and optimise your app’s download and on-device sizes

Creating MIDI files in C#

16 July 2022 by Brian Hearn code, midi

Introduction I had a need to create a MIDI file stream for my new app Seed:Loops . The app is written in C# using Xamarin.Forms as it targets Android. The .net MIDI libraries out in the wild either concentrate on reading midi files, or take a dependency on Windows. My Solution I wrote a small library to do this for me and have released it under the MIT open source licence (i.