Bitmap are eventually garbage collected. From the javadoc of the Bitmap class itself:
"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." On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Nivek<kevin.gau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm sorry, I've certainly misunderstood something then, but... while > coding an app dealing with bitmaps, this is what it looks like. > Reading posts and blogs about memory management and use of bitmap led > me to that conclusion, and carefully recycling bitmaps in my app > allowed me to get rid of a lot of memory allocation exceptions. > > Anyway, about memory leaks on orientation changes, another blog post > from Romain Guy could be useful: > http://www.curious-creature.org/2008/12/18/avoid-memory-leaks-on-android/ > > You might try this Drawable.setCallback(null) trick... > > > On 17 août, 22:02, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Nivek<kevin.gau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > When you change the device orientation, you app is closed and then >> > reopened. >> >> > Android handles bitmaps a "special" way, you HAVE to explicitly >> > recycle them as soon as you don't need them anymore... or they stay >> > allocated in memory and NEVER get freed. >> >> That is not true. > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
