Zygote is also used to share the system drawables with all the apps. This allows the system to load the bitmaps for buttons only once for instance.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Antony Deepak <[email protected]> wrote: > Think about Zygote in its biological significance "The first cell formed > when an organism is produced.". > > So, when an application is launched , the core process for the application > is forked from Zygote. Zygote has all the core libraries and hence all > applications share these libraries from Zygote. > > > On Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16:19 PM UTC-5, Lucius Fox wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Can someone please help me understanding what is the android zygote >> process? >> From, it appears listen commands on a socket and spawn a thread for >> that? Is that true? >> if yes, what are examples of those commands? Under what situation that >> android zygote process will be used? >> >> Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
