{"id":1032201,"date":"2026-08-31T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032201"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:54:50","slug":"after-gadgets-ram-crisis-is-coming-to-software-google-tells-app-developers-that-your-app-will-be-killed-if-it-exceeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/after-gadgets-ram-crisis-is-coming-to-software-google-tells-app-developers-that-your-app-will-be-killed-if-it-exceeds\/","title":{"rendered":"After gadgets, RAM crisis is coming to software; Google tells app developers that your app will be &#8216;killed&#8217; if it exceeds &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. The tech giant has announced two new app quality requirements on Google Play, one focused on cutting apps&#8217; memory usage, and another aimed at securing device migrations, with clear consequences for developers who don&#8217;t comply.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, GM of Google Play Developer &amp; Monetization wrote, &#8220;The mobile industry is navigating significant hardware supply constraints that are altering device memory availability that over time can negatively impact the user experience.\u201d To address this, Android is rolling out broader memory limits designed to stop individual apps from hogging device memory and slowing down the entire system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. The tech giant has announced two new app quality requirements on Google Play, one focused on cutting apps&#8217; memory usage, and another aimed at securing device migrations, with clear consequences for developers who don&#8217;t comply. In a blog post, Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, GM of Google Play Developer &amp; Monetization wrote, &#8220;The mobile industry is navigating significant hardware supply constraints that are altering device memory availability that over time can negatively impact the user experience.\u201d To address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032202,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032201\/revisions\/1032202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}