How to make Android not to recycle my Bitmap until I don't need it?

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Published on 2012-06-12T22:02:40Z Indexed on 2012/06/12 22:40 UTC
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I'm getting drawing cache of the view, that is set as contentView to the Activity. Then I set new content view to the activity and pass that drawing cache to it. But Android recycles my bitmaps and I'm getting this exception:

06-13 01:58:04.132: E/AndroidRuntime(15106): java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to use a recycled bitmap android.graphics.Bitmap@40e72dd8

Any way to fix it? I had an idea to extend Bitmap class, but it's final. Why GC is recycling it?

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