Alright, so that means it does load the entire image into memory. I guess I'll try to break up my image and only load parts of it as they are needed.
Thanks for you input Doug! On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > Bitmaps are going to take as much memory as they need for the grid of > pixels they represent. If you want to store a giant image into a > giant bitmap (or even if you just want to create a giant empty bitmap) > you will consume that memory. > > Android doesn't do so well with giant bitmaps that come and go because > they don't get garbage collected in the way you'd expect, and you'll > often run into memory problems if you attempt this. It's a really > hairy topic with a lot of prior conversation around it that you can > easily search and find. > > Doug > > On Dec 30 2010, 1:37 pm, "Anton S." <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a single image that is slightly larger than the android screen > > which I load into a ScrollView. > > > > My question is the following: > > > > Does android load the entire image into memory even though parts of it > > are invisible(need to be scrolled to), > > or does it use some kind of external/internal cache to store parts of > > the image that are not > > currently visible? If not, do you think it would be possible to > > implement something like this. > > > > Thanks!! > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
