Implementing admob to a Unity project increases APK size by almost 50MB

[OlliJ]

After I imported Admob plugin to our unity project I noticed that the APK was quite a bit larger than previously so I decided to test it some more.

- Revert all changes and build -> APK size 120MB
- Import admob plugin and build -> APK size 125MB
- Implement a simple script that shows UMP consent form and initializes Admob and build -> APK size 167MB

How can the APK size increase that much? The script I implemented was copied from the official "Getting Started" guide.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

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[OlliJ]

Thanks for the answer.

It is probably a bug with Unity since a clean build solves this problem. Using Unity 2021.3.30f1.