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Zygote and the fork that starts everything

Why every Android process is a copy of one warm JVM, and what that costs you.

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Android Internals: A Primer

  1. 01 Zygote and the fork that starts everything
  2. 02 ActivityThread: the loop you never wrote
  3. 03 Choreographer and the 16ms budget
  4. 04 Reading a cold start trace
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