[android-developers] Re: Programmatically determine device RAM

Thanks for the reply. I thought that was likely the case, so now I can
stop searching around for it.

For my purposes (and for anyone else reading this) I've decided to
cat /proc/meminfo and parse out the MemTotal value. Obviously that's
relatively inexact, but I think it's good enough for what I want.

On Feb 19, 7:45 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Sorry, there isn't an SDK API for this.  Any number you would get would be
> fairly meaningless -- often a lot of the actual physical RAM is consumed by
> the radio and other things without the kernel being able to use it.
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> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Julian <lepin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
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> > I haven't been able to find any calls that can determine the amount of
> > ram on a device. I should note that I'm not looking for something that
> > has to do with allocated memory, available memory, or anything that is
> > at all dynamic -- simply something that's going to give you the amount
> > of physical memory built into the hardware.
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> > The best I've been able to come up with so far is catting is /proc/
> > meminfo (... which turns this into a Linux question).
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> > Does anyone happen to know of an Android API that is meant to do this?
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> > Thanks for any suggestions!
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