I moved some posts to this new topic because time is running out. There are only 3 weeks left.
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a (practicable) solution) for this yet.
My tutorial How to build a big app will then be out of date and no longer applicable (Nov 2021 at the latest).
I really hope that I will get a solution / idea for this, especially from @ewpatton and / or @Diego.
I likely won't have time to address this until after the next release goes out. If you want to get a jump start on it, you may want to take a look at how Diego implemented the signing in the Java code and reproduce that at the terminal.
Yes, this is known, but how should this help?
As I said, from Aug 2021, according to Google, only AAB will be approved for new apps (from Nov 2021 also for updates). My goal is to upload an AAB file between 60-100MB in size to the Play Store. Unfortunately the maximum size for an aia with AI2 is 30MB.
On Linux it is sometimes the case that when running a program it gets extra packets from the network to run. It is probably similar in this case.
During decompilation, it may have come across something that doesn't have a built-in module and needs to download it.