Hi, I've been battling this issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7536988/android-app-out-of-memory-issues-tried-everything-and-still-at-a-loss for the past couple of days, and at this point, either I don't understand how Android works anymore, even after reading all the docs, or I still have a bug that prevents activities from getting killed when the process starts to run out of memory.
If my understanding is correct, if you have an app like Facebook and you navigate it without ever clicking Back, the Android process could eventually run out of memory. In this case, from what I'm reading, Android would then start killing activities, specifically in onStop() state. I'm not talking about total memory running low on the device, I'm talking about getting close to the limit and risking the OOM exception in the process itself. I'm just not seeing this behavior. I simplified my app to the point that I can just call the same activity 3-4 times in a row from itself (using an Intent), and it will run out of memory and crash. I see each activity enter onStop after the new activity starts, but I don't see ActivityManager ever killing them. Instead, all I get are OOM. I watch the heap grow and grow and never shrink back. I got the activity itself in a pretty simple state too - a BaseAdapter and a bunch of text in each cell, with the source of data about being 5,000 rows (just for testing - it doesn't take nearly this many to crash when my simplifications are reverted). What I would expect to happen in this test case is for the first instance of this Activity to die as soon as memory in the heap starts getting low, but I'm not seeing it. Am I completely off base here? What am I missing? Thank you. -- 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
