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copied!<p>Out of curiosity, I just recently tested my Android App for Memory Leaks, using the <strong>Eclipse Memory Analyzer.</strong></p> <p>I came across a strange Bitmap with the size of <strong>512 x 512 pixels using up about 1 Megabyte</strong> of my devices heap memory.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WSRNa.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>I checked my drawables folder and could not find a bitmap of that size (512 x 512).</p> <p>I started googling and came across this question, where a user explains how to get the actual Image behind a "memory leak" reference in the Memory Analyzer: </p> <p><strong><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12709603/mat-eclipse-memory-analyzer-how-to-view-bitmaps-from-memory-dump/12709604#12709604">MAT (Eclipse Memory Analyzer) - how to view bitmaps from memory dump</a></strong></p> <p>I followed the tutorial and with the help of GIMP, I extracted the following Image:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ea6uI.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>So my questions are:</p> <ul> <li>What is that?</li> <li>What is it doing in my applications heap?</li> <li>How do I get rid of it?</li> <li>Does anyone else have the same bitmap in his heap?</li> </ul> <p>Notes:</p> <ul> <li>In my drawables folder is no Bitmap looking like that</li> <li>The largest Bitmap my app uses is 140 x 140 pixels</li> <li>I have a feeling that this Bitmap somehow comes from the system</li> <li>The Bitmap is in heap right after app start - without any user interaction</li> <li>I am debugging on a HTC One S, Android 4.1 Cyanogen Mod (Screen 540 x 960)</li> <li>I am not using external Libraries</li> </ul> <p><strong>Update</strong>: </p> <p>With the help of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/690952/selvin">Selvin's</a> suggestion and my personal felling that this could be a System-issue, I tested two other apps of mine.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Both of the apps I tested also showed the same Bitmap in the Memory Analyzer with exactly the same amount of bytes consumed:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Aazck.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Furthermore, I was able to find out that:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The source of the Bitmap is always associated with the LAUNCHER Activity of the app.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>So what to do about that? Is there a way to get rid of it?</p> <p>Since I do memory-intensive operations in my app, I'd like to have as much heap available as possible.</p>

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