Recommendations for Running Android in 512MB

Low-end devices account for more than 30% of all Android devices as of Q3 2013 (dashboard). Most of these devices tend to have 512MB or lower RAM. One of the primary goals of KitKat is to ensure that Android can continue to run on a 512MB device. This documentation is intended to help OEMs optimize/configure KitKat release for low-ram Android devices. Several of these optimizations are generic enough that they can be applied to previous releases as well.