Android: how to check how much memory is remaining?

Question

Below is my formula to check how much memory is remaining (not how much memory remains in the current heap, but how much more memory may be utilized before the application crashes). I'm not remotely sure this is correct, is it?

double max = Runtime.getRuntime().maxMemory(); //the maximum memory the app can use double heapSize = Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory(); //current heap size double heapRemaining = Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory(); //amount available in heap double nativeUsage = Debug.getNativeHeapAllocatedSize(); //is this right? I only want to account for native memory that my app is being "charged" for.  Is this the proper way to account for that?  //heapSize - heapRemaining = heapUsed + nativeUsage = totalUsage double remaining = max - (heapSize - heapRemaininng + nativeUsage);  

Answer 1

Try the following code. that should give you the results you are after (especially the Pss field). You can read more about it here

Debug.MemoryInfo memoryInfo = new Debug.MemoryInfo(); Debug.getMemoryInfo(memoryInfo);  String memMessage = String.format(     "Memory: Pss=%.2f MB, Private=%.2f MB, Shared=%.2f MB",     memoryInfo.getTotalPss() / 1024.0,     memoryInfo.getTotalPrivateDirty() / 1024.0,     memoryInfo.getTotalSharedDirty() / 1024.0); 

Answer 2

This is an old thread, but this seems to work:

  Runtime.getRuntime().gc();   long memoryAvailable = (Runtime.getRuntime().maxMemory() -         Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory() +         Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory()); 

totalMemory-freeMemory is the current used memory.

So this boils down to:

(maximum possible memory)-(current used memory)

Edit to add: freeMemory does not count memory available for garbage collection, so you can try Runtime.getRuntime().gc(), although realize that can have its own consequences (like visual hiccups if run on the UI thread).