SoftReference gets garbage collected too early

Question

I\'m on my way with implementing a caching mechanism for my Android application.

I use SoftReference, like many examples I\'ve found. The problem is, w

Answer 1

From Android Training site:

http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/cache-bitmap.html

In the past, a popular memory cache implementation was a SoftReference or WeakReference bitmap cache, however this is not recommended. Starting from Android 2.3 (API Level 9) the garbage collector is more aggressive with collecting soft/weak references which makes them fairly ineffective. In addition, prior to Android 3.0 (API Level 11), the backing data of a bitmap was stored in native memory which is not released in a predictable manner, potentially causing an application to briefly exceed its memory limits and crash.

More information in link.

We shoud use LruCache instead.