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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
