android - OutOfMemory when having many images in the screen -

i have activity in android application image below:

legend:

• gray: background image covering whole screen;
• blue: 5 different sized circles;
• green: arbitrary image;

i animating circles using view animation (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/view-animation.html) show 1 @ time.

but got outofmemory exception in devices , emulators used test.

i changed layout use 3 imageview instead, 1 one image of 3 inner circles, , others 1 outer circle each using same image file different sizes, , animating them enabling , disabling visibility property. i'm using 2 images instead of 5.

with approach stopped getting outofmemory exception, guess because loading , displaying less images before.

fyi, have different image sizes placed in folders:

• drawable-hdpi
• drawable-ldpi
• drawable-mdpi
• drawable-xhdpi

is memory limited? has have better solution suggest can keep using 5 circle images?

the application small there no point in going path of using opengl.

thanks!

yes, android system guarantees 16mb of memory 1 application, manufacturers can allow more (usually do). not restricted so, if exceed limit, can outofmemoryexception on lot of devices low memory.