Install and Memory usages of popular launchers

[PulsonicVoid]

Here are the average install sizes and memory used for some popular, free launchers. I used "OSMonitor" to get the process info and manually looked at the install size for the rest.

These are the results on my Motorola Droid.

Fresh install. No customizations.

• Launcher2 (default) [~244KB size] = 29+ MB memory running
• Zeam [~828KB size] = 35+ MB memory running
• ADW.Launcher (with notifications) [~1.75MB size] = 26MB / 27MB / 30 MB = 83+ MB memory running (3 processes)
• GoLauncher EX (with notifications) [~3.7MB size] = ??* / 14 MB (notifications) = 14+ MB memory running (2+ processes)
• LauncherPro [~3.54MB size] = 26MB / 28MB / 26MB / 28MB = 108+ MB memory running (4 processes)

*GoLauncher EX and LauncherPro are very similar so I suspect they have similar process usages (even though GoLauncher EX would not show up for me in OS Monitor even when set to stay in memory)

Results

Smallest installed size: Launcher2 (the default launcher)
Largest installed size: GoLauncher EX (with notifications)

Least memory usage while running: Launcher2 (the default launcher)
Most memory usage while running: LauncherPro / GoLauncher EX*

Average size/memory usage: ADW.Launcher

Conclusions

More features = potentially lower speed, more bugs, and less space. Is it worth it? Yup.

If you have any of the paid launchers, please post your results.

Tips / Links

Reduce launcher homescreen redraw lag (root required)
LauncherPro
ADW.Launcher
Go Launcher EX
Zeam

 

[Aram58]

thanks for that. this some really useful info to have. saved me so much time. im sure other people have used this.

this is tested on stock froyo rom?