Thanks for the reply. I thought that was likely the case, so now I can stop searching around for it.
For my purposes (and for anyone else reading this) I've decided to cat /proc/meminfo and parse out the MemTotal value. Obviously that's relatively inexact, but I think it's good enough for what I want. On Feb 19, 7:45 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > Sorry, there isn't an SDK API for this. Any number you would get would be > fairly meaningless -- often a lot of the actual physical RAM is consumed by > the radio and other things without the kernel being able to use it. > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Julian <lepin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > I haven't been able to find any calls that can determine the amount of > > ram on a device. I should note that I'm not looking for something that > > has to do with allocated memory, available memory, or anything that is > > at all dynamic -- simply something that's going to give you the amount > > of physical memory built into the hardware. > > > The best I've been able to come up with so far is catting is /proc/ > > meminfo (... which turns this into a Linux question). > > > Does anyone happen to know of an Android API that is meant to do this? > > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en