Yes I did, thanks. There was indeed a problem with using static variables to store reference to certain views which were being overwritten/modified when the view was stopped/restarted/destroyed.
Thanks On Feb 4, 10:18 pm, Alexey <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you read that > ?http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.... > > On Feb 4, 12:46 pm, Gw1921 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > I'm trying to track down memory leaks in my application. It seems the > > total amount of memory the app really needs is perhaps around 3MB > > (Maximum, on average it's around 2.1MB). There's only one activity in > > the whole app which uses max amount of memory. > > > However, every time I switch from that activity back to the main entry- > > point activity (which shows the user an index of available options), > > it seems the previous activity was not garbage collected. I have the > > following concerns: > > > 1. I'm not sure if this is because I've kept a reference to some > > global resource in the previous activity that it's not being collected > > 3. I'm not sure if this is how Android works, i.e. GC on activities > > are delayed. > > > I'm using a lot of drawables (included as assets and resource) in the > > other memory-hogging activity. Am I supposed to 'reset' the views > > somehow in order to remove the reference to these globally accessible > > resources? I'm also reading a number of files from the SD Card (saved/ > > created in a separate activity). > > > Or am I supposed to somehow ensure that the activity is 'killed' in a > > way? In order to get back to the main Index (from which the user > > navigates to the other activity), I'm simply calling startActivity(new > > Intent("com.blah.MAININDEX")); > > > Any help would be much appreciated. I'm not sure if I completely > > understand how references are incremented and decremented for a given > > view in Android. > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
