android memory usage and heap usage

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when I look at my application in a memory utility (like Memory Usage app), it shows my application using 33MB of memory.

If while debugging my app, I go into DDMS and look at the heap, it's taking 4MB.

So at this point, I'm wondering where the other 29MB is being chewed up by. Secondly, my concern is that I could wind up spending a huge amount of time trying to trim that 4MB to something much smaller like say 2-3MB, but that hardly seems like I'm putting a dent in the memory usage. So how do i get that memory usage down much more significantly?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 09:59

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check and discoer it properly..........

http://elinux.org/Android_Memory_Usage

How do I discover memory usage of my application in Android?

edited May 23 '17 at 09:59

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answered Sep 30 '11 at 17:36

Samir Mangroliya

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those articles are great, but still - where is that 29MB? they only seem to talk about the 4MB... – user645402 Sep 30 '11 at 18:18
according to the article, much of the memory is actually shared with other processes – coderek Apr 22 '13 at 03:41

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