Detect application heap size in Android

Question

How do you programmatically detect the application heap size available to an Android app?

I heard there\'s a function that does this in later versions of the SDK. In

Answer 1

Some operations are quicker than java heap space manager. Delaying operations for some time can free memory space. You can use this method to escape heap size error:

waitForGarbageCollector(new Runnable() {
  @Override
  public void run() {

    // Your operations.
  }
});

/**
 * Measure used memory and give garbage collector time to free up some
 * space.
 *
 * @param callback Callback operations to be done when memory is free.
 */
public static void waitForGarbageCollector(final Runnable callback) {

  Runtime runtime;
  long maxMemory;
  long usedMemory;
  double availableMemoryPercentage = 1.0;
  final double MIN_AVAILABLE_MEMORY_PERCENTAGE = 0.1;
  final int DELAY_TIME = 5 * 1000;

  runtime =
    Runtime.getRuntime();

  maxMemory =
    runtime.maxMemory();

  usedMemory =
    runtime.totalMemory() -
    runtime.freeMemory();

  availableMemoryPercentage =
    1 -
    (double) usedMemory /
    maxMemory;

  if (availableMemoryPercentage < MIN_AVAILABLE_MEMORY_PERCENTAGE) {

    try {
      Thread.sleep(DELAY_TIME);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

    waitForGarbageCollector(
      callback);
  } else {

    // Memory resources are availavle, go to next operation:

    callback.run();
  }
}