Does client need GWT classes?

[Neil]

Hi guys,

Thanks for gwtrpccommlayer, very handy, up and running very quickly
using your example as a guide.

Does the client need to have the GWT classes? If I don't include them
then I get runtime errors as it looks for
com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.RemoteService that my interface
extends.

If I include gwt-user.jar then it works fine, but it increases the
size of my Android .apk substantially, from around 33KB to 2.5MB. Is
there a cut-down subset of those GWT classes I can get away with for
runtime?

Cheers
Neil

[Dan Billings]

Unfortunately it is part of gwt-user.jar.

I recommend you use ProGuard to shrink the resultant jar.  I've not used it myself but it seems to be popular, and it should strip out all the unused GWT stuff.

[Neil]

Thanks for the suggestion, currently fiddling with ProGuard trying to
get it as small as possible.

Cheers
Neil

[Dan Billings]

Are you using the maven plugin?  I'd be interested to hear of your successes