Google forces Appmaker to create Android apps for phones who use less memoryhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android phone apps. >Developers will have until February 2027 to meet new thresholds for memory and bitmap usage. To aid developers, Google is adding tools to flag apps that exceed the set limits and help prevent slowdowns and crashes.>The company explains that the mobile industry is now facing "significant hardware supply constraints that are altering device memory availability," which can then, in turn, affect the consumer's experience with their devices. To address this, Google is now establishing new performance thresholds across several areas, like dynamic memory usage and bitmap usage. In addition, Google is adding code optimization requirements designed to prevent things like app slowdowns and crashes related to performance loss when memory buffers are full.
>MFW we're going back to software optimization and all the brute force jeets are fucked
>>541547697once upon a time people wrote terse code due to memory limitations. then came the bloatware. now it goes back? or around?
