Question

I have a repeated Runnable task that performs a setImageResource() every 10 seconds (the resource is a jpeg file). This is the only significant thing happening in the activity.

However, after a few iterations (2-4), the app crashes with the following error:

• VM won’t let us allocate X bytes
• Shutting down VM

I did not expect this. Why isn’t the GC cleaning up previous jpeg bitmaps? How do I avoid crashing the VM?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You have to call recycle on previous bitmaps. Android is allocating memory for image recources and is not freeing it until you call recycle method with your hands.