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Conserving memory

Conserving memory is always important in application development, even for desktop applications. Mobile devices, however, place a premium on memory consumption, and it is worthwhile to limit the amount of memory your application consumes.

• Display objects
• Primitive types
• Reusing objects
• Freeing memory
• Using bitmaps
• Filters and dynamic bitmap unloading
• Direct mipmapping
• Using 3D effects
• Text objects and memory
• Event model versus callbacks