Merge "New API to determine if device has lots of RAM."
diff --git a/core/java/android/app/ActivityManager.java b/core/java/android/app/ActivityManager.java
index 93e30af..102fac1 100644
--- a/core/java/android/app/ActivityManager.java
+++ b/core/java/android/app/ActivityManager.java
@@ -235,6 +235,24 @@
}
/**
+ * Use to decide whether the running device can be considered a "large
+ * RAM" device. Exactly what memory limit large RAM is will vary, but
+ * it essentially means there is plenty of RAM to have lots of background
+ * processes running under decent loads.
+ * @hide
+ */
+ static public boolean isLargeRAM() {
+ MemInfoReader reader = new MemInfoReader();
+ reader.readMemInfo();
+ if (reader.getTotalSize() >= (640*1024*1024)) {
+ // Currently 640MB RAM available to the kernel is the point at
+ // which we have plenty of RAM to spare.
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ /**
* Information you can retrieve about tasks that the user has most recently
* started or visited.
*/