Re: Avoiding Running Out Of Memory
markspace wrote:
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote:
ThisImage.recycle();
I don't see a type for ThisImage in your code, and the Java API doesn't seem
to have a recycle method. What API is this?
With a little help from my friend Google I found:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.html#recycle()
which tells us its purpose is to
"Free the native object associated with this bitmap, and clear the reference
to the pixel data. This will not free the pixel data synchronously; it simply
allows it to be garbage collected if there are no other references."
Google also showed me that the use of 'Bitmap#recycle()' has turned up in the
OP's scenario before.
It's odd, though. The method's documentation also avers,
"This is an advanced call, and normally need not be called, since the normal
GC process will free up this memory when there are no more references to this
bitmap."
So the question is why that isn't true.
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