 <blockquote> <p>Is there a way to see how much ram the device has so i can use both resultion and memory to determin what size bitmap to use?</p> </blockquote> <p>The device RAM does not matter. The available memory <em>for your process</em> matters.</p> <p>To find out the memory class of your app, call <code>getMemoryClass()</code> on <code>ActivityManager</code> -- that basically returns the amount of available RAM for your process in MB.</p>