How and why GrapheneOS starts Apps differently than Android
How and why GrapheneOS starts Apps differently than Android
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GrapheneOS has really good documentation, I highly recommend you to read it!
I will not cite their website as the content may change.
Allow me to go out on a limb and say that I don't like this trade off. This was one of the fundamental innovations of Android to conserve memory and accelerate application launch times. 200ms is a long time.
I respect this project and I've installed it on devices for friends, but even when I used it I did not take advantage of this feature.
"Very noticeable on lower-end" devices is definitely true. Default GrapheneOS has really slow app start times on my Pixel 4a. It even made me switch to CalyxOS for a while, befiore I found out I could disable this security feature.
You have a not too old flagship device, many people look to install a custom ROM on a phone that doesn't get security updates anymore to extend it's life so that effect will be felt a lot more
I guess it makes sense to enable it by default (since it's meant to be the private OS it should be ready out of the box), but it might help to advertise the difference more is what I'm getting?
Agreed. It hits both startup time and memory usage. I'm not sure how significant the security gains are. Perhaps it makes sense in the scenario where you want to do everything you can to decrease the chance of exploits. However given how many other layers of security there are on Android, this might not be a worthy tradeoff for the common case.