With the launch of Android 17 Google brought in per-app memory limits to help wrangle certain apps and keep them from hogging up too much of your device’s memory, and while it started with Pixel devices during this first push, Google is now confirming that it will be expanding this policy to all apps and app developers.
Google is telling developers to prepare their apps for broader memory limits, and what it means by that is that developers should go through a few steps to make sure their app fits within these changes. According to Google, this should start with developers prioritizing memory optimizations, then move onto monitoring to see how much memory the app using, and finally optimizing things across process states to ensure the most amount of memory savings possible.
Android will slow down and possibly terminate any app that exceeds memory limits
Google’s blog post doesn’t give a hard date as to when these limits will be enforced. It is, however, suggesting that developers prepare things now. As for the limits, Google is serious about ensuring apps run optimally and smoothly on devices regardless of whether the phone has 4GB or 16GB of memory. Under Google’s new per-app memory limits, the company says that apps which exceed these limits will be slowed down. It also states that apps could even be terminated.
It’s worth noting that Google says app termination by the system would only happen if an app continues to exceed memory limits. However, there are some apps that do need lots of memory to function properly. Google is trying to set developers of these types of apps up to better optimize the memory usage so they don’t run into slowdowns or app termination issues, which could lead to worse user experiences, and then potentially dropped user counts.
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