[android-developers] Heap size driving me crazy

Hi!

Im making a game for android, Im about halfway trough (its my first real game that Im planning to release) and I just started using DDMS, and realised that my heap-size was at around 30 000, with a leak on around 3000 every time I changed level. So I created a method that loaded my bitmaps with only 3 colors, and this reduced my heap-size down to 20 000, and I suspect that the memory leak is because the menu I have in between levels (with score etc) is a new activity started in realtime, Im gonna change this to a dialog-box so I never have to leave the main-activity in realtime.

But obviously 20 000 heap size is still to much! I need to get down to 16 000, and like I said, I'm only halfway done. I Only have 5-6 different bitmaps onScreen at a time, sure there is around 5-6 enemies on screen that are using the same bitmap, aswell as several bullets using the same bitmap.

So after all that, my question is, is there any common mistakes that beginners do that increases heap-size that I might have done? I've been reading about it for weeks and watched a couple of google-lectures on youtube. But nothing that really helps. Ive been trying to isolate the problem by removing 1 class at a time, then starting my game, but dosnt seem to go down. Going crazy! Been working for 6-7 months and now it might end up in the trash =/.

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