Android virtual memory and paging

android paging virtual-memory
agent.smith picture agent.smith · Apr 13, 2011 · Viewed 14k times · Source

Can anyone elaborate or provide a link to android memory management. I am confused about Android virtual memory scheme. How is paging done in Android? Without a hard disk, how do they do it? Do they have caching?

Answer

Yekmer Simsek picture Yekmer Simsek · Apr 13, 2011

Here are some links about memory management on android

A detailed post http://mobworld.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/memory-management-in-android/

And a nice blog post for memory analysis http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/memory-analysis-for-android.html

How to avoid memory leaks http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html

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