Android Drawing text with opengl es crashes after a few minutes

Question

I've created an opengl surface and everything works fine, however when I try to draw text onto it using the following method:

public void loadFPSTexture(GL10 gl){

    Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(256, 256, Bitmap.Config.RGB_565);
    bitmap.eraseColor(Color.BLACK);
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);

    Paint textPaint = new Paint();
    textPaint.setTextSize(35);
    textPaint.setFakeBoldText(true);
    textPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
    textPaint.setARGB(255, 255, 255, 255);
    canvas.drawText("FPS "+reportedFramerate, 10,35, textPaint);
    gl.glGenTextures(1, texturesFPS, 0);

    gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, texturesFPS[0]);
    gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL10.GL_LINEAR);
    gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL10.GL_LINEAR);

    gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL10.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
    gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL10.GL_REPEAT);
    GLUtils.texImage2D(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, bitmap, 0);

    bitmap.recycle();
}

Then used in my onDraw function with:

gl.glPushMatrix();
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, texturesFPS[0]);
gl.glTranslatef(-surfaceSize.x/1.5f, surfaceSize.y/1.5f, 0.0f);
gl.glScalef(10, 10, 1.0f);
gl.glColor4f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, saturation_head); 
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0,vertexBuffer);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, textureFPSBuffer);
gl.glDrawElements(GL10.GL_TRIANGLES, indices.length,GL10.GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, indexBuffer);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
gl.glPopMatrix();

I get a weird crash and the surface is unable to be drawn after this point. Logcat shows a constant stream of the following:

E/Adreno200-EGL( 2578): eglLockWindowSurface: failed to map the memory for fd=32 offs=1536000
E/SurfaceFlinger( 2578): GL error 0x0505
E/Adreno200-EGL( 2578): eglLockWindowSurface: failed to map the memory for fd=32 offs=1536000
E/Adreno200-EGL( 2578): egliSwapWindowSurface: oglSwapBuffer failed
E/SurfaceFlinger( 2578): eglSwapBuffers: EGL error 0x3003 (EGL_BAD_ALLOC)

I'm not sure why this is happening? any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

The trouble is that I was generating textures repeatedly without ever deleting them. Simply adding one line before generation is enough to prevent a memory leak (it seems there is no need to check that a texture has already been generated):

 gl.glDeleteTextures(1, texturesFPS, 1);
 gl.glGenTextures(1, texturesFPS, 1);

Simple as that :)