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

Now what happens over here is every app in android is alotted a specific amount of heap size that is as little as 20mb

Bitmaps take up a lot of memory, especially for rich images like photographs

so whenever you load a heavy image or array of heavy images it exceeds the heap size and android automatically shuts down the app because it was using more than the allotted heap size

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So whenever you are working with heavy images

• Load a scaled down version
• Asynchronously process the image
• and then final display it in an imageview