Nope, the only static variables I have are constants. I do keep an array of Drawable in the view, but that's an instance variable.
On Oct 10, 1:14 am, "Romain Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like you're leaking memory somewhere. Do you keep a static cache > somewhere in your app? > > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:02 PM, songs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I think that either I've stumbled onto a bug or I'm missing something > > on how to manage my resources. I have an activity with a Java based > > view that contains 30 or so small images (~2k each .png) that are > > loaded into an array when the view is created. In "normal" operation, > > everything runs fine. When I flip the orientation between landscape > > and portrait 3-4 times, I get the following: > > > E/AndroidRuntime( 472): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size > > exceeds VM budget > > E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at > > android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeAsset(Native Method) > > E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at > > android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:290) > > E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at > > android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromStream(Drawable.java:635) > > E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at > > android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1440) > > E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at > > android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:498) > > > When the orientation gets changed, the activity seems to go through > > the entire lifecycle (pause, stop, then create again). A new instance > > of the activity's view is created in the onCreate method and it seems > > that the pause/stop steps in the lifecycle don't clean up the old > > view. I've tried explicitly setting the reference to the view to null > > in onPause and doing a System.gc(), but that doesn't seem to help. > > I've also tried setting the requested orientation to portrait in hopes > > that the activity would then ignore orientation changes, but that > > didn't work either. GC messages come up after every orientation > > change so one would think that the garbage collector was doing its > > job. > > > I could just leave this be and assume people aren't going to be > > randomly flipping their phone open and closed while they're using my > > app, but that seems pretty sloppy. I'd like to know what's going on > > here and fix it. > > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > -- > Romain Guywww.curious-creature.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
