My app shows up OK..but after a few minutes of clicking around it freezes..and if i close it, I have to go to my phone setting and clear the cache or restart my phone before i am able to open the app. Is there a way to have the app tell the phone to clear the catch every few second or just maybe don't allow caching?

Do you have any logcat output? If it closes after you've clicked around the app for a while it could be an out of memory error, do you have a lot of images? **edit** I'm assuming you're on Android...

Yes i have a bit of images..,its an android app and i self host ....but is there a solution

Well, we'd need to know what the error is, are you able to plug your phone into your pc/mac and use it as an emulator? If you're getting an out of memory error in logcat, try crunching the image sizes for a basic possible fix using http://tinypng.org/ for png's or http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ for jpg's If it's other errors we'd need to see the logcat. And if it's out of memory and the image crunching doesn't work, it probably gets technical..

This is why I despise Android - the apps run out of memory so darn quickly! Turns out, even using compressed images doesn't give you picture-perfect results (pardon the pun). The app will uncompress the image and take up just as much memory. On top of that, Android allocates a certain amount of memory to each app, regardless of the amount of memory on the device itself. And since a good portion of that memory goes to basic app functions, there's very little left over for graphics. Best bet? Keep the graphics to a minimum, and always use PNG-8 where possible. If you need higher resolution than PNG-8, go with PNG-24. Don't use JPG if you can help it.

Thanks, for that info

@chris1, too right unfortunately. Also, garbage collection seems to be hit and miss with images, you can release an activity from the stack, recycle bitmaps, call GC and the heap still keeps growing!

Hi raveyd i am going to use those image program you mentioned and reduce the images

That's a good start @recoore, hopefully reducing them will be the solution. Report back on what happens, there are some other things we can try if that doesn't work.