Thanks for the speedy replies Romain and Diane. I take it now that we should not worry about it, beyond the typical known concerns for real-time drawing and rendering, etc. Appreciated --
Adam On Monday, June 20, 2011 2:22:14 AM UTC-4, Romain Guy (Google) wrote: > > Skia's font cache doesn't count towards your heap limit. > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Adam Ratana <adam....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for responding; it seems to be freeing up quite often, probably > > several to more than several meg of memory a second (if the numbers are > > right), depending on how often the view is invalidated. I know we are > > working with limited heap space, is this something we can optimize in our > > implementation or should we not be concerned at all? Most of the text is > > the same, but could be generated with new string instances for example. > > Thanks, > > Adam > > > > On Monday, June 20, 2011 12:58:03 AM UTC-4, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > >> > >> It just means it needs to flush old data from the font cache. You may > see > >> this a lot if you are for example drawing at a large number of sizes, as > you > >> fill up the font cache with glyphs in a lot of sizes and old glyphs need > to > >> be removed to make room. > >> > >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Adam Ratana <adam...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello, I am noticing the same with an implementation for some new > >>> functionality I'm experimenting with. I am doing a lot of > canvas.drawText > >>> calls on a custom View canvas, using the system font though. Are you > doing > >>> canvas.drawText a lot, Samuh? > >>> Also a "bump" in case anyone reading has knowledge on this subject. > >>> Wondering am I doing something stupid here, trying to avoid jankiness. > >>> > >>> On Wednesday, June 1, 2011 2:10:27 PM UTC-4, Samuh wrote: > >>>> > >>>> We are using four different custom fonts across our app. These files > >>>> are bundled in Assets and are opened in onCreate of every Activity. > >>>> > >>>> While studying the logs of our app we keep observing the following log > >>>> from Skia decoder. > >>>> > >>>> 01-01 19:19:51.585: DEBUG/skia(1510): purging 197K from font cache [20 > >>>> entries] > >>>> > >>>> What does the above mean? And how does it affect performance? > >>>> > >>>> Is it desirable? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> Groups "Android Developers" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to androi...@googlegroups.com > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> android-d...@googlegroups.com > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Dianne Hackborn > >> Android framework engineer > >> hac...@android.com > >> > >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > >> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > >> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see > and > >> answer them. > >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-d...@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-develop...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > roma...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > -- 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
