Hey everyone,
I got an OOM. I know it has been covered alot by previous questions but mine has to do with the internals of Android. As I am loading images at random points I get this dreaded OOM exception. I do have my images in an HashMap>. From the SoftReferences definition I would expect the Drawables to be GC'ed if memory is not enough. In contrast, from my previous research I see that the bitmap in the drawable is allocated in a different heap (the native heap) than my applications heap. That explains why on DDMS despite the fact I see 6MB of memory I am using, my app still crashes. It also seems that SoftReferences are "perfect" for caches and are recommended by Android engineers to use. My question is, since my application heap never reaches the MAX point, this should mean my SoftReferences are never GC'ed. How can I resolve this problem? Is there really any gains from using SoftReferences then? Am I not understanding something correctly? 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
