I've been doing a lot of searching and I know a lot of other people
are experiencing the same OOM memory problems with BitmapFactory
. My
app only shows a total memory available of 4MB using Runtime.getRuntime
().totalMemory()
. If the limit is 16MB, then why doesn't the total
memory grow to make room for the bitmap? Instead it throws an error.
I also don't understand that if I have 1.6MB of free memory according
to Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory()
why do I get an error saying "VM
won't let us allocate 614400 bytes"? Seems to me I have plenty
available memory.
My app is complete except for this problem, which goes away when I reboot the phone so that my app is the only thing running. I'm using an HTC Hero for device testing (Android 1.5).
At this point I'm thinking the only way around this is to somehow
avoid using BitmapFactory
.
Anyone have any ideas on this or an explanation as to why VM won't allocate 614KB when there's 1.6MB of free memory?