Release bitmaps from android.view.GLES20DisplayList

Question

Is anyone knows how to Release bitmaps from android.view.GLES20DisplayList. And why it keeps them alive even if you clean, let\'s say, ImageView manually? Or maybe there is a wa

Answer 1

This seems to be a memory leak in 4.2. Looks like this fix is intended against it: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/034de6b1ec561797a2422314e6ef03e3cd3e08e0

I disabled hardware acceleration in the manifest for 4.2 for the activity where I encountered this problem, this helped with android.view.GLES20DisplayList memory holding.

In the manifest for activity: android:hardwareAccelerated="@bool/gpu_enabled"

In values.xml for v17:

false   

In default values.xml, I set it to true.