Animation Drawable causing OutOfMemoryError on second run in Android

Question

I am currently developing a game and I\'m trying to use one AnimationDrawable to show one animation in my Main Menu. When I run the game once, it works perfectly. But if i t

Answer 1

You need to free memory used by bitmaps, when you're exiting this screen. Unfortunately, for earlier versions of Android (afaik this was "fixed" since 3.0, but I can be wrong) memory for bitmaps is allocated through native code and, what is sad, memory should be freed explicitly.

So, I suppose you to try this approach:

1. Move code for AnimationDrawable to onResume() method.

2. Add following code for releasing memory to onPause().

   ad.stop();
   for (int i = 0; i < ad.getNumberOfFrames(); ++i){
       Drawable frame = ad.getFrame(i);
       if (frame instanceof BitmapDrawable) {
           ((BitmapDrawable)frame).getBitmap().recycle();
       }
       frame.setCallback(null);
   }
   ad.setCallback(null);
   

I hope it'll help you.