Hello, I am working on reducing the memory usage of my application, and it looks like one of the part that consumes a lot of it is the application Resources class that gives access to all my drawable pngs. I didn't find a lot of documentation on how it deals with memory, but it looks like it loads the png that are in my res/drawable/* folders when they are needed, and they are actually never released from memory. I have a couple questions about this: - Is this really what happens? - Are all screen density images loaded, or just the one adapted for my device? - Where kind I find more info about this?
I have a bunch of pngs that are only being used once (Splash screen background, onboarding screens, etc...), but running the Eclipse MAT, it looks like they're never released from the Resources. - Is there a way to unload them from the memory once they're not needed anymore? - It looks like there is a method for flushing the Resources (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Resources.html#flushLayoutCache()), but according to the doc it should only be used for tracking performances. Is it unsafe to use in my context? - Should I just not put large images in my res/drawable folder and decode them manually from the disk so that they don't get stored in Resources at all? If yes, where is a good place to store this kind of files? Thanks! -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
