You should think from a user's point of view, seeing that kind of error message for an "out of memory" issue is non specific and as such, makes it very difficult for them to report issues to the app creator.
On Apr 28, 1:09 pm, Ivan Soto <[email protected]> wrote: > The user will get a nice "This applicated failed and will now close" and > that's why you need to debug and see the log for errors because we are > developers. > I don't really see the need of a more friendly way to do that. > > What you can also do is be writing the log to a file for later reading. > Somebody already posted a snippet about this, search the list. > > Ivan Soto Fernandez > Web Developerhttp://ivansotof.com > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Kenn Min Chong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hey guys! > > So i found the solution to debug this. Apparently ADB has a tool to > > show the debug logs of the OS, when I did that I saw the "Out of > > memory" error. Apparently, Android limits apps to use only 16megs of > > memory before automatically killing it. It'd be nice though if this > > error were shown more intuitively on the screen of the devices instead > > of needing to find out about this via a desktop based debugger :) > > > On Apr 23, 1:28 pm, "Fred Grott(shareme)" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Best bet is to post a log and than we can help you narrow it down > > > > On Apr 22, 7:03 pm, Kenn Min Chong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi there! > > > > For some reason I can't explain, when my app runs, I will on > > > > occasion get the following error message: > > > > > “The application xxxxxxxx (process xxxxxx) has stopped unexpectedly. > > > > Please try again.” > > > > > When I debug my code, it seems to break at random places that doesn't > > > > make sense. On top of that I tried to surround the entire code with a > > > > try/catch block just to try to catch the exception, but it doesn't > > > > work either. I'm suspecting it's the OS that is producing this error > > > > message but I don't know why. As far as my code goes, if there were > > > > exceptions caused by it, it would've been caught by the try/catch > > > > block. Can someone shed some light here? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
