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Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games

(android-developers.googleblog.com)
95 points ingve | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 07:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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nubinetwork ◴[15 Jul 25 02:01 UTC] No.44567177[source]▶
I can understand the desire for google to want devs to recompile their apps, but I don't see the need to dump old apps from the app store... who cares if an old app that works wastes 12k if it only needs a single 4k page?
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1. tonyhart7 ◴[15 Jul 25 04:43 UTC] No.44567891[source]▶
"but I don't see the need to dump old apps from the app store"

They literally remove almost 50% total android app earlier this year, they clearly devoted to quality and security