[TIMOB-1489] Android: Setting Background Image can cause Out of Memory

This also occurs if large images are used within an imageview.

Friedrich how large of an image and are you using the latest CI build?

Yes, latest CI build, really big images.

See this simple example.

app.js:

   // an array of some random images
   var images = ['http://ddiff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Hurricane-Isabel-NASA.jpg','http://www.eurocarib.com/userimage/images/hurricane.gif'];
   var active_image = 0;
   // the image window
   var imagewin = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
     fullscreen:true
   });
   var imageView = Titanium.UI.createImageView({
     canScale:true,
     enableZoomControls:true,
     top:0
   });
   imagewin.add(imageView);
   imagewin.addEventListener('close', function(e)
   {
     Ti.API.info('imagewin gets closed');
   });
   // the main window
   var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
     fullscreen:true
   });
   var button = Titanium.UI.createButton({
     title: 'Show Next',
     bottom: 0
   });
   button.addEventListener('click', function(e)
   {
     active_image %= images.length;
     Ti.API.info('loading image #'+active_image);
     imageView.image = images[active_image++];
     imagewin.open();
   });
   win.add(button);
   win.open();
   

Images load correctly about 4 times, then app crashes with OOM.

Correcting myself:
App doesn't crash but simply fails to display new image.

Verified resolved with basic camera, photo gallery, and code above. On emulator 2.2, N1 (2.2) and G2 (2.2) (version=1.5.0 timestamp=11/24/10 15:34 githash=735911a) no additional code changes.