How can an Android app use >=256Mb of RAM?

Question

As far as I\'m aware, each Android phones limits all apps to a maximum memory usage of about 16, 24 or 32Mb. I\'ve just seen people discussing the app Dungeon Defenders whic

Answer 1

On the droidcon in Berlin, Germany, I heard that you can't increase the amount of RAM an application can use on the dalvik side. You can use all available memory on the native side so I guess the named application have implemented heavy memory stuff native in C using the NDK. Thats the only possible solution I know...

Update It wasn't the conference, it was a Google Lab visit at my university with Reto Meier and colleagues.