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Learning Embedded Android N Programming
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Learning Embedded Android N Programming

by Ivan Morgillo, Stefano Viola
July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
282 pages
6h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enhancing the system performance

Lots of the custom ROMs that you can find on the Net bring performance enhancements, extended battery life, and lots of small tweaks. Most of these enhancements can be achieved with a surgical tuning of the build.prop file.

Customizing the system property file

The Android build.prop file contains details about a variety of system settings that are applied to the system during the boot sequence. Before diving into its customization, we need an overview about its internal structure.

Open a terminal and connect to your device using the following command:

:$ adb shell

Navigate to the /system folder and open the build.prop file. The content will look like the following snippet:

ro.product.model=Nexus 6 ro.product.brand=google ...
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