Question

The software team in our graduation project asked for increasing the heap size per process in Android. They said that the default is “16MB” which isn’t sufficient for them.
How could I custom the size?

I found a commented line in the file: /acme/my_board/BoardConfig.mk in my android source code:

# USE_CUSTOM_RUNTIME_HEAP_MAX := "64M"

Is that what I need to edit??

Answer 1

I got that answer through android-platform mailing list

You can change platform/dalvik/vm/Init.c

For example to make it 32MB, you can do below

gDvm.heapSizeMax = 32 * 1024 * 1024;

Another suggested approach is to update your system.prop

Regards,
Muthu Subramaniam