256GB enough for mobile development

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Created Apr ’21

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Is 256GB MacBook Air(M1)(16GB) enough for Mobile Application Development with the usage of apps like Xcode, Android Studio, React Native, Flutter?

Answered by OOPer in 669740022

Depends on your usage.

Xcode requires 50GB or more free space when installing/upgrading.
The runtimes of iOS Simulator may consume nearly 10GB for each version,
To build a small project, some amount of disk space is needed. Hundreds of simple sample code would take some GB of storage.

Generally, 256GB would be enough for building and running a few simple projects (and installing tools and SDKs you have mentioned).
But you may need to clean up your disk space once in a while, if you need to work with more projects.

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Apr ’21

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Depends on your usage.

Xcode requires 50GB or more free space when installing/upgrading.
The runtimes of iOS Simulator may consume nearly 10GB for each version,
To build a small project, some amount of disk space is needed. Hundreds of simple sample code would take some GB of storage.

Generally, 256GB would be enough for building and running a few simple projects (and installing tools and SDKs you have mentioned).
But you may need to clean up your disk space once in a while, if you need to work with more projects.

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