[android-developers] Re: Doubt about heap size

Don't mistake maximum heap for available heap.

A process can have free memory in its allocated heap. This is available heap.

A process' currently allocated heap space is equal or less than the maximum. When needed, the process can get some extra heap space until its maximum has been reached.

On Sunday, June 24, 2012 5:56:08 AM UTC-4, Fran wrote:

Hi there,

I have read that the maximum heap available for an app is 16M, despite
that there may be higher on newer devices.

Anyway on a 2.1 emulator with Eclipse/DDMS my available heap shown is
just about 3M, while in  my SGS2 real device shows about 5M of available
heap. As you see, a lot of lower than 16M.

My app runs fine on my SGS2, but it crashes complaining about not having
sufficient heap memory on the emulator, and I have received a few
reports with the same error on Google Play.

I am currently doing an effort to decrease heap consumption, but I
wonder why DDMS shows values so low and if some devices may actually
have less than 16M of heap memory.

My app is developed for Android 2.1+

Best regards,

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