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Asked: 2026-06-11T16:22:33+00:00

I’m developing an android app that has a lot of bitmaps that uses a

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I’m developing an android app that has a lot of bitmaps that uses a lot of RAM. My question is that when I keep my app running for a long time and the ram usage exceeds 64 MB, the app crashes with an “OUT OF MEMORY ERROR, VM won’t let us allocate … etc”.

While other apps such as facebook reaches 200 MB ram sometimes without any crashes and with a very fast performance. My device is Galaxy S II.

and please notice that my question is not about reducing the memory usage, it’s about the difference in memory limit between my app and other apps.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think there is a limit on the amount of memory that an application can use… Used to be 32MB… There might be a permission that you can change to request more memory, in the same way that you can request hardware acceleration. From a quick google android:largeHeap=”true” might be your answer… Also Runtime.getRuntime().maxMemory(); might help? This link was also interesting…

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