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

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Google has announced new performance thresholds for Android applications that impose stricter memory-use limits, citing an emerging memory crunch driven by artificial-intelligence workloads. The company is urging Android app developers to reduce their apps’ memory consumption to meet these thresholds, warning that failure to do so could affect app performance and availability.

Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. TechCrunch·
    AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

    Google is tightening Android app requirements, mandating lower dynamic memory and bitmap usage and adding code-optimization rules to curb slowdowns and crashes caused by current memory chip shortages. New diagnostic tools, including a Memory Limiter feature, will warn developers of excess usage, with compliance due by February 2027.

  2. TechMeme·
    Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Google introduced stricter performance thresholds for Android apps, imposing new memory-use limits to address the increased RAM consumption caused by AI features. Developers must redesign apps to stay within these caps, or risk reduced visibility and possible removal from the Play Store.

  3. The Verge·
    Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else

    Google issued a memo stating that the Play Store will enforce new memory-usage limits on Android apps, targeting the ongoing RAM crisis. The restrictions, first introduced with Android 17 on Pixel devices, will be policed, and apps that exceed the limits will face penalties.

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