Catch Flash out-of-memory error in WebView?

Question

When loading certain .swf files into a WebView, a split second after the flash file begins to be displayed, my app closes with a Signal 11

Answer 1

An alternative solution could be to use a background task or service to monitor the memory usage on the device, if the system tells you that you're on low memory, kill the flash activity.

To know if you are on low memory you can use this code:

ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
MemoryInfo memoryInfo = new ActivityManager.MemoryInfo(); 
activityManager.getMemoryInfo(memoryInfo);

boolean onLowMemory = memoryInfo.lowMemory;

Or you can check the available memory using memoryInfo.availMem, if it's too low (close to memoryInfo.threshold) kill your activity before the exception.