Detect application heap size in Android

Question

How do you programmatically detect the application heap size available to an Android app?

I heard there\'s a function that does this in later versions of the SDK. In

Answer 1

Here's how you do it:

Getting the max heap size that the app can use:

Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
long maxMemory=runtime.maxMemory();

Getting how much of the heap your app currently uses:

long usedMemory=runtime.totalMemory() - runtime.freeMemory();

Getting how much of the heap your app can now use (available memory) :

long availableMemory=maxMemory-usedMemory;

And, to format each of them nicely, you can use:

String formattedMemorySize=Formatter.formatShortFileSize(context,memorySize);