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Android per-app memory limits shipped on Pixel first. From 19 August 2026 Google says manufacturers will extend them across 4GB to 16GB+ RAM tiers, and its own three documents describe the consequence three different
Google's Android 17 blog says apps over the memory limit are killed. AOSP says memory.high is a soft limit that throttles and swaps first. The caps, the process-state table and the adb commands, from the source docs.
Google has not published a Play deadline for API level 37. That does not make the bump safe: eleven behaviour changes fire the moment you target Android 17, and the SMS OTP delay alone can break a login flow
Continue On is Android 17's cross-device handoff feature, and it is off by default on every activity. Here are the four APIs that turn it on, the 50KB extras limit that governs what you can carry, the web fallback path
