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user1385487
user1385487

Reputation: 65

I need to free up memory in an app am building

am using noHistory in the android manifest but my memory keeps building up and eventually is making my app crash, basically what am doing is having buttons allowing user to navigate left and right and after the 20th or so activity phone crashes because memory start running low on ram,

noHistory

is not working can someone help? thank you

I saw somenthing that might work but can someone explain it how to use the

recycle()

and how it works thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 273

Answers (1)

Madhusudhan
Madhusudhan

Reputation: 156

keeping no history will not guarantee memory to be automatically reclaimed...

in fact, it is not guaranteed that your activity will be garbage collected when its onDestroy is called

this is a broad topic

take a look at to begin with

http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html

and this great video

http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/memory-management-for-android-apps.html

Upvotes: 1

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