Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else

The representation situation conscionable won’t quit. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge

Google volition commencement policing memory-hungry Android apps arsenic a nonstop effect to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the institution yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's relation successful enforcing caller memory-usage restrictions. The station emphasizes the value of gathering caller representation usage limits for apps, successful bid "to assistance developers navigate industry-wide hardware constraints and Android's broader representation limits," it says. And failing to conscionable the caller representation restrictions volition travel with consequences.

The representation limitations were first introduced with Android 17, appearing archetypal connected Pixel phones. It's astir apt nary coincidence that the basal …

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