android OutOfMemoryError 排查

Few hints to handle such error/exception for Android Apps:

1. Activities & Application have methods like:

   • onLowMemory
   • onTrimMemory Handle these methods to watch on memory usage.

2. tag in Manifest can have attribute 'largeHeap' set to TRUE, which requests more heap for App sandbox.

3. Managing in-memory caching & disk caching:

   • Images and other data could have been cached in-memory while app running, (locally in activities/fragment and globally); should be managed or removed.

4. Use of WeakReference, SoftReference of Java instance creation , specifically to files.

5. If so many images, use proper library/data structure which can manage memory, use samling of images loaded, handle disk-caching.

6. Handle OutOfMemory exception

7. Follow best practices for coding

   • Leaking of memory (Don't hold everything with strong reference)

8. Minimize activity stack e.g. number of activities in stack (Don't hold everything on context/activty)

   • Context makes sense, those data/instances not required out of scope (activity and fragments), hold them into appropriate context instead global reference-holding.

9. Minimize the use of statics, many more singletons.

10. Take care of OS basic memory fundametals

    • Memory fragmentation issues

11. Involk GC.Collect() manually sometimes when you are sure that in-memory caching no more needed.