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POOut of memory, showing AlertDialog and making changes in orientation
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copied!<p>I have an activity containing two imagebuttons. If the user clicks back an alertDialog is shown. While the alert is shown, if the orientation is changed back and forth a few times the application crashes with this message:</p> <pre><code>ERROR/dalvikvm-heap(10988): 3363556-byte external allocation too large for this process. ERROR/dalvikvm(10988): Out of memory: Heap Size=4935KB, Allocated=2594KB, Bitmap Size=19579KB ERROR/GraphicsJNI(10988): VM won't let us allocate 3363556 bytes </code></pre> <p>If the AlertDialog is not there, the application doesn't crash.</p> <pre><code>public class StartPageView extends Activity implements OnClickListener, android.content.DialogInterface.OnClickListener { private static final String TAG = "StartPageView"; private ImageButton vacButton; private ImageButton sickButton; private AlertDialog alert; private static boolean alertDismissedByLifeCycle = false; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.startpage); vacButton = (ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.gotovac_btn); vacButton.setOnClickListener(this); sickButton = (ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.gotosick_btn); sickButton.setOnClickListener(this); if(alertDismissedByLifeCycle) { alertDismissedByLifeCycle = false; showAlert(); } } @Override protected void onStop() { if(alert != null && alert.isShowing()) { alertDismissedByLifeCycle = true; alert.dismiss(); } super.onStop(); } //GO TO VACATION VIEW OR SICK VIEW //user clicked on vacView button or sickView button @Override public void onClick(View v) { if(v.equals(this.vacButton)) { Intent i = new Intent(this, VacationLeaveView.class); startActivity(i); } if(v.equals(this.sickButton)) { Intent i = new Intent(this, SickLeaveView.class); startActivity(i); } } //LOG OUT //user pressed the back button @Override public void onBackPressed() { showAlert(); } //OnClickListener for logging out warning @Override public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { if(which == DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE) { MainController.getInstance().clearAllChildren(); dialog.cancel(); this.finish(); } else dialog.cancel(); } //DIALOG private void showAlert() { if(alert == null) { AlertDialog.Builder alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); alertDialog.setMessage("Vill du logga ut från förskoleportalen?"); alertDialog.setPositiveButton("Ja", this); alertDialog.setNegativeButton("Nej", this); alert = alertDialog.create(); // Title for AlertDialog alert.setTitle("Logga ut"); } alert.show(); } </code></pre>

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