Why does Krita apps data so large (android)

[CrazyCatBird]

In my case, it was the resources and the amount of installed brush presets, bundles, brush tips, patterns, etc., … I have a lot! It was related to a big swap file probably from older version of krita. (I don’t think that that problem came back for the latest version, did it? )

I backedup the brush bundles and other resources then deleted the app data, from the apps section in the tablet’s settings, and then I reimported the brush bundles that I know I’ll use the most and the app size was then at 533 MB. And yup, it got a bit bigger when I imported more brush bundles. This was on Krita 5.1.1.

Krita Android app size - 31GB!

Is that the only place where you have backup files. I would also suggest you to check the size of your work files, may be it is adding that to in the calculation just like how it took into account the backup files. So what you see here might be size of Krita + your entire work folder. It might be best to transfer older projects to cloud drive or some other computer for archival and keep only exported jpg on the tablet.