title: android mapview slow and unresponsive
body: <p>In my app mapview works great on some phones and very poorly on other phones. it seems to be a RAM issue, ie. phones with a lot of ram and a lot of heap work great and smoothly, phones without work very poorly.</p>
  
  <p>I am recycling bitmaps and clearing things, but it doesn't seem to help. During app development it seemed kind of random when some phones would have issues with the mapview, but now it seems very consistent.</p>
  
  <p>Basically on phones that don't work well, the mapview tiles load slowly, other parts of the app function very slowly, and the google map search does not give search suggestions or update the map with the address searched for.</p>
  
  <p>On phones that do work, mapview tiles load quickly, other parts of the app function very quickly, the google map search gives search suggestions and the map updates exactly as desired.</p>
  
  <p>what causes this and how would I improve it? (it is standard mapview code)</p>
  
  <p>I saw a similar question about "android mapview is slow", basically was my problem, but the solution was irrelevant for me, how do apps that use mapview account for this?</p>