Of course. Perfect. Thanks Mark. Yes, I was somewhat surprised when I noted that there was no doco for vmSafeMode. But I'm not too worried as so far I just want the default in all scenarios except for V9 and V9 instances aren't going to lose than behaviour now.
William On Friday, March 16, 2012 9:25:57 PM UTC+10, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:39 AM, William Ferguson > > I seem to have several devices running foul of the JIT compiler in > > Froyo (see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9281) > > The solution appears to be setting android:vmSafeMode="true" in my > > application element in the Manifest, and this seems to work well. > > Note that this is a lightly-documented property on <application>, so > I'd keep a very close eye on future Android releases so make sure they > don't get rid of it, rename it, etc. > > > But I don't really want to switch off JIT for everyone, just for the > > FROYO users. > > Does anyone know of a way to set vmSafeMode at runtime? > > Create a boolean resource (e.g., @bool/safeModeEnabled). Define it in > res/values/ as true. Define it in res/values-v9/ as false. Use the > resource as the value of android:vmSafeMode. Then, at runtime, Android > will use the right value for the device. Technically, this uses safe > mode for API Level 8 *and lower*, but since I think JIT only showed up > in API Level 8, I doubt there will be an impact on lower API levels. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! > > -- 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
