Never mind, I've managed to solve the problem myself with a hint from the other similar thread that I didn't see before posting.
For anyone that encounters the same problem, I fixed it by using convertView as explained here http://androidguys.com/?p=635 On Jan 29, 2:23 pm, muckwarrior <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having problems with ListViews in my application. I thought > everything was fine until I noticed that if I scrolled up and down > through the list quickly a number of times, sooner or later the app > would crash with an OutOfMemoryError. > > When I searched for the error I noticed a number of posts related to > loading images. As my list items included a small arrow png, I assumed > the problem lay here. However even after removing this and all other > drawables I had (gradient background and list separator) the problem > still remains. > > Here's the stack trace > > ERROR/dalvikvm-heap(2362): 66560-byte external allocation too large > for this process. > ERROR/(2362): VM won't let us allocate 66560 bytes > DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(2362): Shutting down VM > WARN/dalvikvm(2362): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught > exception (group=0x40013e28) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due > to uncaught exception > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size > exceeds VM budget > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate > (Native Method) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap > (Bitmap.java:343) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.View.buildDrawingCache > (View.java:5219) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.View.getDrawingCache > (View.java:5112) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild > (ViewGroup.java:1355) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw > (ViewGroup.java:1192) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at > android.widget.AbsListView.dispatchDraw(AbsListView.java:1125) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.widget.ListView.dispatchDraw > (ListView.java:2778) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.View.draw(View.java: > 5422) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild > (ViewGroup.java:1420) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw > (ViewGroup.java:1192) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild > (ViewGroup.java:1418) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw > (ViewGroup.java:1192) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.View.draw(View.java: > 5329) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw > (FrameLayout.java:324) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild > (ViewGroup.java:1420) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw > (ViewGroup.java:1192) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild > (ViewGroup.java:1418) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw > (ViewGroup.java:1192) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.View.draw(View.java: > 5329) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw > (FrameLayout.java:324) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at > com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.draw > (PhoneWindow.java:1701) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewRoot.draw > (ViewRoot.java:980) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at > android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:829) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage > (ViewRoot.java:1103) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage > (Handler.java:88) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java: > 123) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at android.app.ActivityThread.main > (ActivityThread.java:3742) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at > java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke > (Method.java:515) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit > $MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:739) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at > com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:497) > ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2362): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main > (Native Method) > > I've had a look in DDMS and noticed that the percentage memory used in > the heap doesn't go above 70%. Also, doesn't the reported 66K seem > like a very small amount to be causing a crash? > > Any help appreciated! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
