Android is broadening excess memory usage enforcement. 🤖
Apps exceeding per-app limits will be slowed down and may be terminated to prevent system-wide slowdowns. Learn about memory limits and how to monitor and diagnose your memory usage in the field →
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- 📱 @flotracker used Jetpack Compose state primitives, ViewModel, and Window Size Classes to make their highest-traffic user journeys resilient to rotation, fold/unfold and resizing transitions. Learn more about how to retain UI state so interactions like scroll position, form
- 👓 Jetpack XR SDK core libraries have officially reached Beta! → goo.gle/4wzkEJu Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime are now in Beta, marking the next milestone for Android XR. What's new? ➕ More testing capabilities 🔗 Kotlin Coroutines support
- Audit your build configurations with the R8 Configuration Analyzer to show refinement areas in your codebase. ⚡️ Tinder used the R8 Configuration analyzer to improve R8 scores, resulting in cold start cuts by 47%, app size improvements, reduced user-perceived ANRs by 28%, and
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