In my (limited) experience you should only recycle a bitmap when it is no longer referenced anywhere else, ie when the thing where you stuffed the bitmap into is gone.
Having said that I recently have seen a problem where the recycling worked fine on 2.3 but crashed on 1.5. Go figure. On Mar 9, 9:22 am, b_t <bartata...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > when I use > > imageView.setImageResource(int) or > imageView.setImageDrawable(packageManager.getApplicationIcon(packageName)) > or > imageView.setImageDrawable(resolveInfo.loadIcon(packageManager)) > > should I recycle bitmap inside the imageView when I change the image? > Or not because the returned bitmaps are cached inside and > can be used again? > > How can I decide if I have to recycle bitmaps or not? > > I don't have memory problems on my Desire but I can see that some > Nexus One users have. > > T. -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
