Now thatAndroid 14 has been released on 4th October after a long wait, users may becurious about the changes it brings. Whilevisually similar to its predecessor, Android 14 includes a few tweaks and evenmore consistent use of Google's 'Material You' design language. However, themost exciting developments are the improvements under the hood.
Android 14has made a significant improvement in the performance of managing and launchingapps. A novel process freezes apps in the cache quicker, emphasizing theprocessor's usage for active tasks, thus reducing its load.
Moreover,the process prevents frozen apps from automatically activating in thebackground. These measures not only provide enhanced security, but alsopotentially improve battery life as no extraneous computing resources areutilised. By halting processes, Android 14 allows for an increased number ofcached applications. As a result, apps can be launched more rapidly and withless strain on the processor because they do not need to be restartedcompletely as often.
Additionally,Android 14 makes significant improvements to the memory requirements of theoperating system and system applications. More and more mobile devicemanufacturers are abandoning memory expansion options, leaving users with justthe onboard memory. This becomes especially frustrating when the operatingsystem and its data occupy most of it. Android 14 is set to address this withfurther optimizations in the Android Runtime sector, resulting in reduced codesizes and a significant decrease in memory demands.