Don't mistake *maximum *heap for *available *heap.

A process can have free memory in its allocated heap. This is available 
heap.

A process' currently allocated heap space is equal or *less *than the 
maximum. When needed, the process can get some extra heap space until its 
maximum has been reached.

On Sunday, June 24, 2012 5:56:08 AM UTC-4, Fran wrote:
>
> Hi there, 
>
> I have read that the maximum heap available for an app is 16M, despite 
> that there may be higher on newer devices. 
>
> Anyway on a 2.1 emulator with Eclipse/DDMS my available heap shown is 
> just about 3M, while in  my SGS2 real device shows about 5M of available 
> heap. As you see, a lot of lower than 16M. 
>
> My app runs fine on my SGS2, but it crashes complaining about not having 
> sufficient heap memory on the emulator, and I have received a few 
> reports with the same error on Google Play. 
>
> I am currently doing an effort to decrease heap consumption, but I 
> wonder why DDMS shows values so low and if some devices may actually 
> have less than 16M of heap memory. 
>
> My app is developed for Android 2.1+ 
>
> Best regards, 
>
>

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