Think about Zygote in its biological significance "The first cell formed when an organism is produced.".
So, when an application is launched , the core process for the application is forked from Zygote. Zygote has all the core libraries and hence all applications share these libraries from Zygote. On Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16:19 PM UTC-5, Lucius Fox wrote: > > Hi, > > Can someone please help me understanding what is the android zygote > process? > From, it appears listen commands on a socket and spawn a thread for > that? Is that true? > if yes, what are examples of those commands? Under what situation that > android zygote process will be used? > > Thank you. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
