How To Find That Memory Leak (Part Three): Why An Object is Leaking Into Memory
Investigating the cause of application memory leaks on BlackBerry smartphones. Part three in a three part series. [...]
How To Find That Memory Leak (Part Two): Detecting The Leak
In part one of our memory leak how to series, I explained the most common cases for a memory leak in a Java® development environment, and how that can affect your application. Today we’ll discuss how to detect potential leaks. Application memory leaks are usually not that easy to find – the application may need […]
How to find that memory leak! (Part One)
Releasing an application with a memory leak can be one of the most embarrassing moments for a developer in the application’s lifecycle. Since mobile devices tend to have less free memory than a PC, the impact of a memory leak becomes more pronounced. Following the steps below will help ensure developers don’t encounter this situation […]
How-to Set up a Lightning Fast BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator
Many times while coding an application for BlackBerry® smartphones, I want to quickly start the BlackBerry® Smartphone Simulator and see what I have achieved so far. Micro-iterative coding is my style of choice. I don’t need to debug any code, I just want to see it running; If it doesn’t work, then I’ll begin debugging. […]