Android heap size and SoftReferences

Question

I have an application that creates a series of bitmaps. I keep these bitmaps in SoftReferences to avoid running out of memory. I would like the heap size to grow to a maximum of 16 MB before it starts collecting my SoftReferences. However, SoftReferences are collected very willingly, before the heap is maximized. Is there a way to make links assemble less readily? or manually increase the heap to the maximum? Perhaps a way to just run the application with 16 MB allocated?

Answer 1

There is currently no way to change the behavior of the SoftReference collection.

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: http://code-gotcha.blogspot.com/2011/09/softreference.html