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Pixel Smartphones: Google Can Restrict or Terminate Apps - Android Gets Strict Memory Limits

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The smartphone market is in crisis - which is also due to the sharp rise in RAM prices, which in some cases massively cost the devices. Google now reacts to it in Android 17 with quite drastic means, because it wants to impose strict memory limits on app developers, in the framework of which they have to move. This should be quite effective within a very short time. read more: Pixel smartphones: Google can restrict or terminate apps – Android ge…
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It took a total crisis in DRAM availability and prices for Google to wake up and start doing something about reducing RAM consumption in Android apps. This could hardly qualify as better late than never… Google has introduced stricter requirements for how Android apps can use a device’s RAM. The new guidelines require developers to optimize […]

The smartphone market is in crisis - which is also due to the sharp rise in RAM prices, which in some cases massively cost the devices. Google now reacts to it in Android 17 with quite drastic means, because it wants to impose strict memory limits on app developers, in the framework of which they have to move. This should be quite effective within a very short time. read more: Pixel smartphones: Google can restrict or terminate apps – Android ge…

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GoogleWatchBlog broke the news on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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