[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-11 Thread arnouf
On G1, when you do a long press on home button, we can see 6 applications maximum Are you sure that you say? Rgds On 10 mai, 23:23, Raphael r...@android.com wrote: I don't think there's a hard number. It depends on the memory available and how much memory the current tasks are using. R/

[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-11 Thread David Turner
Essentially, the system will kill application processes to make room for new ones in case of contention. There are also some rules to avoid killing system services, or even application services before activities, but the idea is still the same. Which means that the maximum amount of VM instances

[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-11 Thread arnouf
So if I understand (thanks at all for your answers) If the G1 device displays 6 applications it's just a UI beahviour (there are perhaps 15 applications/activity sleeping)... Is not a shame? Example: if I use a game application, really heavy the morning...This game stays in memory all the day

[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-11 Thread David Turner
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, arnouf arnaud.far...@gmail.com wrote: So if I understand (thanks at all for your answers) If the G1 device displays 6 applications it's just a UI beahviour (there are perhaps 15 applications/activity sleeping)... Is not a shame? Example: if I use a game

[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-11 Thread mike quinn
And I have learned something new today. I didn't know that doing a long press on HOME would display the last 6 apps used, well there you go. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, David Turner di...@android.com wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, arnouf arnaud.far...@gmail.com wrote: So if

[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-11 Thread arnouf
David, I'm not sure...let me explain :) When I call finish() method on a running application, the activity seems close BUT if I look for processes using DDMS, I can find the process related to my application... I don't understand something...I am Stuppp :'( On 11 mai,

[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-11 Thread kozak
I suppose in case of performance intensive application the behavior has to be made such that it consumes little or no resources once it goes into the background. Many of the existing apps are done in a similar way I guess. Regards Kozak On May 11, 3:01 pm, arnouf arnaud.far...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-discuss] Re: How many Dalvik instance max?

2009-05-10 Thread Raphael
I don't think there's a hard number. It depends on the memory available and how much memory the current tasks are using. R/ On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM, arnouf arnaud.far...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It seems that Android can support 6 Dalvik instances in same time. Each instance