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I am doing memory analytis for my application, using dumpsys and below command adb shell dumpsys meminfo I get the dalvik heap and native heap memory .....but I also see GPU memory adb shell dumpsys gfxinfo I am failing to understand when is GPU memory used and when is native memory used for bitmaps.Also the texture view, surface view is used where?

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I am doing memory analytis for my application, using dumpsys and below command adb shell dumpsys meminfo I get the dalvik heap and native heap memory .....but I also see GPU memory adb shell dumpsys gfxinfo I am failing to understand when is GPU memory used and when is native memory used for bitmaps.Also the texture view, surface view is used where?

More clarity needed in analysis.

• android
• gpu
• heap

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In Android memory analysis, adb shell dumpsys meminfo shows Dalvik Heap (Java/Kotlin objects, software-rendered Bitmaps) and Native Heap (C/C++ allocations, hardware-accelerated Bitmaps). When hardware acceleration is enabled (setHardwareAccelerated(true)), Bitmaps are stored in Native Heap instead of Dalvik:

bitmap.setConfig(Bitmap.Config.HARDWARE)

GPU memory, analyzed via adb shell dumpsys gfxinfo, is used when rendering with OpenGL/SurfaceFlinger, storing textures and shaders. TextureView relies on the GPU for smooth animations, whereas SurfaceView provides a separate rendering surface, making it efficient for media playback. Identifying where Bitmaps are stored helps optimize memory usage and prevent OOM(Out of Memory) errors.

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