Bitmap exceeds VM budget: potential issue

[hyoun98]

Hi,
While this is not your issue per se, I was wondering if you could comment on this. I have a listview which contains textviews and imageview which are both loaded from the network. After continuous opening and closing the listview activity, but retrieving different data sets, I run into this error message and the app then closes. I've tried such things like:

a) forcing a gc on the OnDestroy, OnPause events
b) nulling out references to the imageviews on the OnDestroy and OnPause events
c) using decodeFileDescription instead of decodeStream (see Comment 94 on the link below)
d) forcing a bitmap recycle when doing the gc and nulling references (see Comment 90)

None of these seem to be helping any.

There is a long thread about this problem which Google is well aware. Just wondering if you had any thoughts to this:
Btw, your code works great. Thanks for your help.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8488

[hyoun98]

Hi. I found the root cause of the issue that I had encountered. As done in your example MainActivity.java, I had neglected to call "stopThread()" in the onDestroy() routine as you did. Regards.

[thest1]

Don't think stopThread can affect memory usage. I guess there's still a memory leak.