Android Question List of Bitmaps - Used Memory

[Quillok]

Hey,
I've got a short question, I'm far away of a pro in programming and never used a large amount of bitmaps, but now I want to and I've got a question.
If I've got a given Bitmap

Dim SampleBitmap as Bitmap

an its size is about 100kb for example.

Now I've got a list with 10 empty bitmap objects in it.

When I do this:

For x = 0 to SampleBitmapList.size - 1
Dim HelpBitmap as Bitmap
     HelpBitmap = SampleBitmapList.get(x)
     HelpBitmap = SampleBitmap
next

What is the size of the used memory of the SampleBitmapList?
Is it only 100kb because every object points to the bitmap thats already in the memory, or does every object in the list have the size of 100kb, so its about 1000kb?

A lot of years ago I had this in school, but i can't remember what is the right thing. I hope i described it good enough, that you can understand what i mean

 

[LucaMs]

I'm not quite sure, but being that variables point to the same object, they should occupy 100kb. Object variables contain a memory pointer.

But only if they are not displayed

 

[thedesolatesoul]

They all refer to the same bitmap so only 1 bitmap memory is used.
Also, bitmaps are handled differently in Android so even if you would have managed to load them separately they would probably still use only one memory area in the heap.