Activity Background Image Issue

[Bill Norris]

I am loading a JPEG as the background of an activity on a 10" tablet, each time the activity is called. I am using activity.finish whenever I leave this activity.
The JPEG is sized to the tablet at 1280 x 800, and the file size is 107 KB. Occasionally the program crashes with memory error when this activity loads. I cannot make the file size any smaller, so I am not sure what to do to eliminate this error. BTW, all of the activities in the app are "Finished" when they are exited, so I am assuming there are no residual bitmaps consuming memory.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

The filesize doesnt matter.
The memory consumed is calculated by Width x Height x BitDepth
In this case 1280x800x4=3.9 MB
If you can you may declare it in process globals if you use the same background on all activities. That way there is no chance of duplicates.