Android custom view Bitmap memory leak

Question

I\'ve got a custom view in which I need to draw two bitmaps, one is a background, representing the image of a map and one is a pin which will be drawn on top/left position i

Answer 1

Something that marked me in your code is that you don't recycle all your bitmaps apparently. Here are a couple of code snippets that could help:

bmp = getBitmapFromRessourceID(R.drawable.menu);
ratio = (float)this.height/(float)bmp.getScaledHeight(canvas);
temp = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bmp, (int)(bmp.getWidth()*ratio), (int) (bmp.getHeight()*ratio-10), false);
bmp.recycle();
bmp = temp;

and:

Bitmap temp = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), resource, opts);
Bitmap bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(temp, 0, 0, temp.getWidth(), temp.getHeight(), flip, true);
temp.recycle();

Answer 2

You obviously have a memory leak. Read how to avoid memory leaks and how to find memory leaks.

Here is a your code refactored to use WeakReference:

public class MyMapView extends View {
    private int xPos = 0;
    private int yPos = 0;
    private int space = 0;

    private WeakReference<Bitmap> resizedBitmap;
    private WeakReference<Bitmap> position;
    private WeakReference<Bitmap> mapBitmap;

    public void setMapBitmap(Bitmap value) {
        this.mapBitmap = new WeakReference<Bitmap>(value);
    }

    public MyMapView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public MyMapView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MyMapView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public void init(Bitmap mapBitmap) {
        Paint paint = new Paint();
        paint.setFilterBitmap(true);

        int width = getMeasuredWidth();
        int height = getMeasuredHeight();

        resizedBitmap = new WeakReference<Bitmap>(Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(
            mapBitmap, width, height, true));
        position = new WeakReference(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(
            getContext().getResources(), R.drawable.position));
        space = (width - resizedBitmap.get().getWidth()) / 2;
    }

//    public void destroy() {
//        resizedBitmap.recycle();
//        resizedBitmap = null;
//        position.recycle();
//        position = null;
//        mapBitmap.recycle();
//        mapBitmap = null;
//    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        setMeasuredDimension(MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec),
            MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec));
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

        if (mapBitmap != null) {
            canvas.drawBitmap(resizedBitmap.get(), space, 0, null);
        }

        if (xPos != 0 && yPos != 0) {
            canvas.translate(xPos + space - position.get().getWidth() / 2, 
                yPos - position.get().getHeight() / 2);
            canvas.drawBitmap(position.get(), new Matrix(), null);

        }
    }

    public void updatePosition(int xpos, int ypos) {
        xPos = xpos;
        yPos = ypos;
        invalidate();
    }
}