Images Memory Management in Android

Question

This is one of the most asked question by beginners but still I couldn\'t get any help unfortunately. In an activity I have a viewflipper to which I assign imageviews with imag

Answer 1

Bitmaps are handled by native memory. This means that when the GC collects the bitmap's reference, the bitmap's memory is not immediately removed. To clear the bitmap's memory immediately, you can call bitmap.recycle(). As for the ViewFlipper, you going to want to find a way to manually unload and reload images as they are displayed to the user. Remember to use recycle(), and don't try to display a bitmap that already was recycled.

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