Android OutOfMemoryException

Question

Is there any way to handle OutOfMemoryException in Android while using Bitmap of large number of pictures. I tried all the solutions given in this site ie(GC, Bitmap.reset()). I just want to know whether any alert can be generated before the heap memory is going to full? so that i can handle it in a different way.

Answer 1

In your Activity there is a callback function you can implement to be notified of low memory issues:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ComponentCallbacks.html#onLowMemory()

@Override
public void onLowMemory() {
    super.onLowMemory();

    // Your memory releasing code
}