title: How can an Android app use >=256Mb of RAM?
body: <p>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 which apparently seems to make use of 256 Mb of RAM.</p>
  
  <p>App description: "Minimum Requirements: 512 MB RAM (256 free at runtime)"
  <a href="http://www.appbrain.com/app/dungeon-defenders%3A-first-wave/com.trendy.ddapp" rel="nofollow">http://www.appbrain.com/app/dungeon-defenders%3A-first-wave/com.trendy.ddapp</a></p>
  
  <p>A guide on how to get this game to run on a Droid (where a custom ROM is require to get 256Mb of RAM free to run the game):
  <a href="http://www.forums.trendyent.com/showthread.php?447-How-to-play-Dungeon-Defenders-on-your-" rel="nofollow">http://www.forums.trendyent.com/showthread.php?447-How-to-play-Dungeon-Defenders-on-your-</a>
  Motorola-Droid-Milestone-(requires-root)</p>
  
  <p>How is this possible? Does anyone know what is going on here? Having access to that much RAM would make certain projects I'm working on much easier to write so I'm very interested to know what this game is doing.</p>