title: How to remove unused Google+ icons imported from Google Play Services library
body: <p>I've migrated the AdMobs banner ads to Google Play Services in my Android Studio project. The resulting APK mushroomed from 0.7 MB to over 1.6 MB. Fortunately ProGuard knocked it down to just over 1 MB. I poked around the APK and noticed that 280 kB of "g+" images have been added to<BR></p>
  
  <pre><code>res/
   drawable-hdpi
   drawable-mdpi
   drawable-xhdpi
   drawable-xxhdpi
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gtznn.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I have no plans to ever use Google+ in this app. It's a utility app and there's no need to deal with social media. 280kB may sound like peanuts compared to multi-Megabyte apps, but being a relatively simple utility, users want it to be as small as possible. It just feels dirty releasing a new version that blows up from ~700 kB to over 1000 kB with no tangible feature improvements for the user.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally I'd like to exclude those icons for just one project, but I could live with a global solution for now.</p>