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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Android dev here. It does not require 20 gigs of RAM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah I don’t understand this comment lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It did last time I tried compiling AOSP. At least on the default settings. After I told the build system not to try building in parallel, I got that number down to 8 gigs. Still way too high. There's no way anybody could develop AOSP on a phone.