Learning about memory issues...

[Gary Miyakawa]

I've got my application that is running fine on some devices but others, I'm getting a "Out of Memory" situation (based on looking at the unfiltered logs)...

My question is, how do I know how much memory my application is using ?

I did a couple of searches but didn't find anything (at least with B4A) that might help direct me.

I'm open to suggestions and directions!

Thanks!

Gary M

 

[warwound]

Is the Dalvik Debug Monitor what you need?

Martin.

 

[Erel]

You can easily get an out of memory error if you load several large bitmaps (images are decompressed in memory). The solution is to use LoadBitmapSample instead.

 

[Gary Miyakawa]

Thank you for the suggestions. This app is up and running (over 500 downloads from MarketPlace) on most devices... It's just a few that have trouble. I do have a number of bitmaps (the size of the app appears to be about 5.8mb) but they are fixed (in that they never change during execution).

The Android system that is giving me trouble is an in expensive Chinese Tablet (7") that appears to have about 512mb base memory (of which, with a fresh reboot, has 280mb available).. Not sure how my 5.8mb pushes it out of memory.

Trying to learn about this so all input is very welcome.

Thanks again !

Gary M