Comment on Why doesn't Android save app memory into storage instead of killing the process in RAM?
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 week agoThis is it, and it’s arguably a much better model. Apps are able to manage their own persistent storage, and you can always be sure that your RAM is actually RAM (and not deal with the speed and timing issues that result in you “RAM” actually being flash memory).
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Problem is that it’s not at all trivial to implement, so it often isn’t implemented.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
That’s true. But it’s also not trivial to implement an app that may have its “RAM” located on disk. It’s a complex problem with multiple solutions, and giving apps the freedom to do what they want with it is the way Android structured things.