Android Question Removeview / recycleview / force garbage collection

[wimpie3]

If I understand it correctly, removeview removes a view, but not immediately. You have to force garbage collection in order to do this as soon as possible.

Is removeview+force garbage the same as a call to recycleview?

I want to remove a bitmap as soon as possible from memory. I'm using removeview but run into memory problems because it takes a while before the bitmap is gone.

So what combination of removeview / recycleview / force garbage should I use?

 

[Erel]

Normally you don't need to call any of these methods.

Are you sure that there isn't any live reference to the bitmap?

Are you loading the bitmap with LoadBitmapSample?