How big will the joda time library be for an android application?

Question

I need to implement a count down timer which countdowns from a specific date, after some research I understand that calendar class isnt the best at handling all this so I should use joda time. However I need this only once in my whole application, so I am concerned that it will be taking too much space in my app when I dont really need it.

So my question is, how much will the size of my application increase if I add joda time library to app.

Answer 1

The actual size of the jar is much smaller than the zip file. I just downloaded the zip file and the current jar that gets distributed (joda-time-2.3.jar) is only 568KB.

Answer 2

The ZIP with sources is about 4.1MB large.

this zip contains the jar which is about 568kB

Information taken from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/joda-time/files/joda-time/