Funny Android L

[Informatix]

I tried the preview of Android L and was unable to run anything more than a few minutes without issues. The funniest error message that I got is:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: OutOfMemoryError thrown while trying to throw OutOfMemoryError

 

[thedesolatesoul]

LOL

 

[barx]

LOL indeed

 

[thedesolatesoul]

I am impressed though that it did manage to throw the out of memory error while being out of memory due to an out of memory error.

 

[corwin42]

Thats a great error. LOL.

Otherwise I think the Android L preview is quite stable. I use it on a Nexus 7 and decided to keep it for testing purposes.

Most apps I tried work well. I have only some graphical errors with notifications on the tablet.

 

[Informatix]

I am impressed though that it did manage to throw the out of memory error while being out of memory due to an out of memory error.

Joke apart, the system itself does not suffer from an out of memory error. When the OS has not enough memory, it crashes the device.

 

[Informatix]

Otherwise I think the Android L preview is quite stable. I use it on a Nexus 7 and decided to keep it for testing purposes.

Most apps I tried work well. I have only some graphical errors with notifications on the tablet.

I tried it only with the official emulator, not with a real device.

 

[barx]

I am impressed though that it did manage to throw the out of memory error while being out of memory due to an out of memory error.

That's the improvement with L. Previous builds would just crap out and fall over.

 

[corwin42]

I tried it only with the official emulator, not with a real device.

Ah, maybe thats because we had different experiences.

Looks like Google started with the internal things and now they have to focus on the UI and fix upcoming bugs of the internal system.

Another thing is that not all things they showed at the keynote and in the I/O sessions made it in the preview release. There is much stuff just missing. So it is really a developer release. Everything you need as a developer (ART, new APIs etc.) is in, end user stuff (like user detection by other bluetooth devices) is not.

 

[DonManfred]

LOL

Some older Error messages came into mind...

No keyboard present; press F1 to continue...

 

[Erel]

How did you create the AVD? Maybe you haven't set enough RAM for it.

 

[Informatix]

How did you create the AVD? Maybe you haven't set enough RAM for it.

512 MB is not enough ? (and 32 for VM Heap)

 

[Erel]

I also created an AVD with 512mb. However I didn't run any memory intensive apps on it. It is worth trying to create a new one with more memory.

If you like you can send me an APK and I'll test it on a Nexus 5.

 

[Erel]

Note that there is another issue in the emulator which I found and reported to Google: https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=445

 

[Informatix]

I also created an AVD with 512mb. However I didn't run any memory intensive apps on it. It is worth trying to create a new one with more memory.

If you like you can send me an APK and I'll test it on a Nexus 5.

I will retry with the next preview version. I'm not in a hurry. Thanks for the proposal.

 

[Troberg]

A bit like "Not enough memory to shut down Windows" (after a suggestion from Windows to restart because there was too little memore left...).