The presently disclosure provides methods and system for reducing the size of an application by replacing a media item in the application with a reference to the media item stored in a remote storage location. A method may include detecting a media item in an application and storing the media item in a remote storage location. The media item in the application may be replaced with a reference to the media item stored in the remote storage location and the application may be provided to a device. A media item request may be received from the device, and the media item request may indicate a parameter associated with the requested media item. The media item stored in the remote storage location may be scaled based on the parameter associated with the media item request and the scaled media item may be provided to the device.