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Asked: 2026-05-31T17:40:09+00:00

My app is a background service running in the foreground. In low memory situations

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My app is a background service running in the foreground. In low memory situations some of my processing threads are being killed without the app being restarted. This is causing very strange behavior. I would like to be alerted by the OS when the memory is low before my process are killed. This will allow me to release memory or restart my app. I can’t seem to find a broadcast or notification for this situation.

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. There is one background service “DeviceStorageMonitorService” continuously running inside Android, which checks system storage directory periodically.
    2. This service maintains a memory threshold which is 10% of the assigned internal system memory, so in case of P2 it is 861MB, so memory threshold is 86 MB.
      We can change this by changing macro DEFAULT_THRESHOLD_PERCENTAGE inside file DeviceStorageMonitorService.java.
    3. It checks the size of available memory with the memory threshold, if it is less than threshold memory, it will broadcast notification and sticky broadcast intent ACTION_DEVICE_STORAGE_LOW.
      In case of full memory intent ACTION_DEVICE_STORAGE_FULL

    Receive this broadcasted intent in your receiver and handle the application.

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