Google I/O 2011: Memory management for Android Apps

Patrick Dubroy

Android apps have more memory available to them than ever before, but are you sure you're using it wisely? This talk will cover the memory management changes in Gingerbread and Honeycomb (concurrent GC, heap-allocated bitmaps, "largeHeap" option) and explore tools and techniques for profiling the memory usage of Android apps.

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  Science & Technology

[Kent Fenwick]

Awesome talk Pat!

[JavaPlumbr]

Very good overview, thanks! We do believe all this should be 100x simpler though!

[Cord Rehn]

Fuck java's garbage collection. They actually made memory management MORE difficult than in C/C++. Can I please just force-free shit I know I am done with, and all references become invalid?

[starrychloe]

I Google for a solution to my problem BECAUSE the garbage collector was not collecting, and ended up here! I did have to manually issue collection requests to work around the problem.

[Pimm Hogeling]

It's all about context.

Listen to the lines before that one as well. The message is: you shouldn't explicitly start the garbage collector.

[gentoomaniac]

Great presentation! Helped me a lot understanding this topic.

[walter0bz]

"with 256mb you're going to see longer garbage collection pause times"

thats why we have C/C++

[ljbpic256]

awesome

[Edmund Rojas]

The guy says the hprof conversion process is "easy" yet doesnt give a thorough explanation as to how to it, Ive been trying to convert it for over a day with no luck

[Slyde InfinitySpinCasts]

timecloxxxxxxxx larger organisms the finite fictory partitions frak yeah

[kapil kumar]

Awesome Video ;) 

[Michael Schollmeyer]

Great Talk! Found my leak in 20 mins (though I didn't call it "Leaky" :-)