Yep, it works for me too. But i only use it when dealing with bitmaps
just to be sure that the garbage collector will release raw binary
image data for unreferenced Bitmaps.
Actually, i call System.gc() before creating a new bitmap. This makes
the code in your 'catch' clauses obsolete:
1. Call System.gc() to make sure that raw binary data is released in
case the dalvik-vm didn't realise memory gets low.
2. Create a new bitmap.
On Aug 10, 1:46 pm, Greg Donald <gdon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Alex Xin <xinxi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Do we need to call System.gc() to indicate that system should do a garbage
> > collection or just let system to choose when to collect garbage and free it?
> > Because my app will random FCs on certain phones, but if I add some calls to
> > System.gc(), then there were no FCs.
>
> I do the same thing. Blocks of code like this are very common in my apps:
>
> try
> {
> cards = BitmapFactory.decodeResource( resources, R.drawable.cards );}
>
> catch( Error e )
> {
> System.gc();
> cards = BitmapFactory.decodeResource( resources, R.drawable.cards );
>
> }
>
> It's not pretty, but it works great.
>
> --
> Greg Donald
> destiney.com | gregdonald.com
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