Building android ROM with large heap

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I am working on a android based device used for biometrics capture (iris, fingerprint, face) and some amount of local matching.

We have platform that has 2GB of memory and we want to let Android apps have large enough memory heap.

I know one can build my custom rom with build.prop with custom dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit, dalvik.vm.heapsize , in our experiments setting this limit to be more than 1GB causes board boot failures.

Has anybody else experimented with increasing heap size for Android application, on custom rom? I am also looking at increasing cursor window memory size as some of the biometric data is stored in sqlite
database.

Anybody else tried to wrangle Android platform to do more memory intensive applications any other places I should be looking to alter things?

posted Oct 15, 2013 by Sonu Jindal

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