I have a very simple Android Activity that creates a view and a timer. The timer task updates the UI with a call to "setTextColor". When executing, I notice memory being allocated by "java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList", caused by the call to "setTextColor". Is there a way to avoid this? My intention is to run this simple timer which monitors memory without modifying the consumed memory.

The Activity is as follows:

```
public class AndroidTestActivity extends Activity
{
    Runnable updateUIRunnable;  // The Runnable object executed on the UI thread.
    long previousHeapFreeSize;  // Heap size last time the timer task executed.
    TextView text;              // Some text do display.

    // The timer task that executes the Runnable on the UI thread that updates the UI.
    class UpdateTimerTask extends TimerTask
    {
        @Override
        public void run()
        {
            runOnUiThread(updateUIRunnable);
        }       
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        // Super.
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // Create the Runnable that will run on and update the UI.
        updateUIRunnable = new Runnable()
        {
            @Override
            public void run()
            {
                // Set the text color depending on the change in the free memory.
                long heapFreeSize = Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory();
                if (previousHeapFreeSize != heapFreeSize)
                {
                    text.setTextColor(0xFFFF0000);
                }
                else
                {
                    text.setTextColor(0xFF00FF00);                  
                }
                previousHeapFreeSize = heapFreeSize;
            }           
        };

        // Create a frame layout to hold a text view.
        FrameLayout frameLayout = new FrameLayout(this);
        FrameLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
        frameLayout.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);

        // Create and add the text to the frame layout. 
        text = new TextView(this);
        text.setGravity(Gravity.TOP | Gravity.LEFT);
        text.setText("Text");           
        frameLayout.addView(text);

        // Set the content view to the frame layout.    
        setContentView(frameLayout);

        // Start the update timer.
        UpdateTimerTask timerTask = new UpdateTimerTask();
        Timer timer = new Timer();
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(timerTask, 500, 500);     
    }
}

```