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<Image> take up a lot memory on Android

See original GitHub issue

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment:
  OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.2
  Node: 8.9.4
  Yarn: 1.3.2
  npm: 5.6.0
  Watchman: 4.9.0
  Xcode: Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b
  Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4443003

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: 16.0.0 => 16.0.0
  react-native: 0.51.0 => 0.51.0

Steps to Reproduce

build a button that allow user to chose multiple image (I am using react-native-image-crop-picker for Android
display these image in a <FlatList>
select >20 image can cause App take 400~600MB memory.
app could crash, depending on if the phone is high-spec or low-spec, cheap phone are more likely to crash since it has less memory

Expected Behavior

it doesn’t take that much memory and cause app crash.

Actual Behavior

take about 400mb to 600mb memory. then my app crash

Reproducible Demo

Video demo(2 minute 38 second): https://youtu.be/zL1heevcWpk
I am writing a demo using RN 0.52, would post it here once it done
Here is Image( I also post them in https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/17142)

369MB memory and keep growing to 400+mb

Thanks for reading 😄

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:9
Comments:17 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

kelsetcommented, Mar 1, 2018

@mattmcdonald-uk please refer to #13413, so that we avoid redundancy - the core team is aware of this Android+Flat/SectionList+Images issue (going to write a follow up there).

2reactions

1c7commented, Jan 31, 2018

demo app video is done:

https://youtu.be/Vgq-P826aqw

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