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| author | Clay Murphy <claym@google.com> | 2013-11-05 16:43:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Clay Murphy <claym@google.com> | 2013-11-05 16:43:25 -0800 |
| commit | 1606da4b8fbe24687ad92c675f781a9bb7ff849d (patch) | |
| tree | 09ff25de60417177036638f800a8ecade4f481c5 /src/devices/low-ram.jd | |
| parent | 69cac8e427bbb1a3f451353e5aa12a0e5612fd98 (diff) | |
| download | source.android.com-1606da4b8fbe24687ad92c675f781a9bb7ff849d.tar.gz | |
Docs: Rewriting first paragraph and "low-end"
Bug: 11508318
Change-Id: I1eb515217e6c744bed7e5ae8dce844a2fa6b732e
Diffstat (limited to 'src/devices/low-ram.jd')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/devices/low-ram.jd | 17 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/src/devices/low-ram.jd b/src/devices/low-ram.jd index 711fadc7..bb4c605d 100644 --- a/src/devices/low-ram.jd +++ b/src/devices/low-ram.jd @@ -26,15 +26,10 @@ page.title=Running Android with low RAM <h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2> -<p>In release 4.4, Android begins explicit support for devices with 512MB -memory. As of Q3 2013, more than 30% of all Android devices run on -platform versions older than 4.0. Most of these devices tend to be low-end with -512MB or less RAM. One of the primary goals of this release -is to ensure Android can continue to run on a 512MB device.</p> - -<p>This documentation is intended to help OEMs optimize and configure Android 4.4 for - low-RAM devices. Several of these optimizations are generic enough that -they can be applied to previous releases as well. </p> +<p>Android now supports devices with 512MB of RAM. This documentation is intended +to help OEMs optimize and configure Android 4.4 for low-memory devices. Several +of these optimizations are generic enough that they can be applied to previous +releases as well.</p> <h2 id="optimizations">Android 4.4 platform optimizations</h2> @@ -86,7 +81,7 @@ wrong thing). <h2 id="build-time">Build-time configuration</h2> <h3 id="flag">Enable Low Ram Device flag</h3> <p>We are introducing a new API called <code>ActivityManager.isLowRamDevice()</code> for applications to determine if they should turn off specific memory-intensive - features that work poorly on low-end devices.</p> + features that work poorly on low-memory devices.</p> <p>For 512MB devices, this API is expected to return: "true" It can be enabled by the following system property in the device makefile.<br/> <code>PRODUCT_PROPERTY_OVERRIDES += ro.config.low_ram=true</code></p> @@ -111,7 +106,7 @@ the really low-memory devices, we recommend the JIT be disabled entirely.<code> <p>Ensure the default wallpaper setup on launcher is <strong>not</strong> -using live-wallpaper. Low-end devices should not pre-install any live wallpapers. </p> +using live-wallpaper. Low-memory devices should not pre-install any live wallpapers. </p> <h2 id="kernel">Kernel configuration</h2> |