Android clear webview thread, free memory, avoid OutOfMemoryError

Question

I am displaying a fairly large image in a webview so that the pinch-to-zoom functions and other conveniences for viewing are already available.

It displays correctly the

Answer 1

Okay, so the conclusion to this issue was that the String buffer could not be predetermined or properly cleared at these file sizes.

In this case the image was pulled from a server as a string, manipulated as a string and finally displayed as an image.

Whether displayed as an ImageView or as a Webview, it did not matter, the app would crash once a string buffer became full (which it would not clear no matter how much stuff I freed or set to null), This was an encryption effort.

but Finally just settled with storing the images in the app's assets folder.