How can you detect a dual-core cpu on an Android device from code?

Question

I\'ve run into a problem that appears to affect only dual-core Android devices running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread or greater. I\'d like to give a di

Answer 1

You can try using Runtime.availableProcessors() as is suggested in this answer

Is there any API that tells whether an Android device is dual-core or not?

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A more detailed description is given at Oracle's site

availableProcessors

public int availableProcessors()

Returns the number of processors available to the Java virtual machine.

This value may change during a particular invocation of the virtual machine. Applications that are sensitive to the number of available processors should therefore occasionally poll this property and adjust their resource usage appropriately.

Returns:

the maximum number of processors available to the virtual machine; never smaller than one

Since:

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