How to use JNI bitmap operations for helping to avoid OOM when using large images?

Question

Background

most of the times, getting OOM on android is due to using too many bitmaps and/or creating large bitmaps.

recently i've decided to try out JNI in order to allow avoiding OOM by storing the data itself on the JNI side.

after messing around with JNI for a while, i've created some posts on SO asking for help and sharing my knowledge, and i've now decided to share some more code with you. here are the posts in case anyone is interested in reading the findings or contributing :

• How to cache bitmaps into native memory

• image decoding and manipulation using JNI on android

• JNI - how to use multiple Jni wrapper instances with different fields?

• Rotating a bitmap using JNI & NDK

this time, i've added the ability to store,restore, crop and rotate bitmaps. it should be easy to add more options and I would be happy if other people here would add their own code to more useful functions .

so the code i'm about to show is actually merging of all the things i've created.

Sample code of usage:

Bitmap bitmap=BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.ic_launcher);
final int width=bitmap.getWidth(),height=bitmap.getHeight();
// store the bitmap in the JNI "world"
final JniBitmapHolder bitmapHolder=new JniBitmapHolder(bitmap);
// no need for the bitmap on the java "world", since the operations are done on the JNI "world"
bitmap.recycle();
// crop a center square from the bitmap, from (0.25,0.25) to (0.75,0.75) of the bitmap.
bitmapHolder.cropBitmap(width/4,height/4,width*3/4,height*3/4);
//rotate the bitmap:
bitmapHolder.rotateBitmapCcw90();
//get the output java bitmap , and free the one on the JNI "world"
bitmap=bitmapHolder.getBitmapAndFree();

The project is available on github

• project page is available on github here .

• feel free to give advises and contribute.

Important notes

same notes as shown here, plus:

• current features that are written here (more updated on the project page) :

  • store

  • restore

  • rotate 90 degrees CCW

  • crop.

• the approach i've taken for this code is both memory efficiency (use only memory that i need, and free it when not needed), and CPU efficiency (i tried to use pointers and CPU memory cache optimizations whenever possible).

• for best performance, i've done really few validations, especially on the JNI part. it might be best to manage the validations on the java "world".

• there are still many missing features that i think should be added, and i hope that i will have the time to add them . if anyone wishes to contribute, i will be glad to add they code too. here are the functions that i think could be useful:

  • get current bitmap info

  • scale bitmaps, including choice of which algorithm to use (nearest neighbour and bilinear interpolation should be enough).

  • use different bitmap formats

  • do the decoding within JNI, to avoid creation of the java bitmap (and not use the heap on the java world) from the beginning, only at the end, when you finished with all of the operations.

  • face detection

  • rotation in any angle, or at least the obvious ones . currently i only added rotation of 90 degrees counter clock wise .

Answer 1

NOTE: this is a bit old code. for the most updated one, check out the project page on github.

jni/Android.mk

LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)

#bitmap operations module
include $(CLEAR_VARS)

LOCAL_MODULE    := JniBitmapOperations
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := JniBitmapOperations.cpp
LOCAL_LDLIBS := -llog
LOCAL_LDFLAGS += -ljnigraphics

include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)
APP_OPTIM := debug
LOCAL_CFLAGS := -g

#if you need to add more module, do the same as the one we started with (the one with the CLEAR_VARS)

jni/JniBitmapOperations.cpp

#include <jni.h>
#include <jni.h>
#include <android/log.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <android/bitmap.h>
#include <cstring>
#include <unistd.h>

#define  LOG_TAG    "DEBUG"
#define  LOGD(...)  __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG,LOG_TAG,__VA_ARGS__)
#define  LOGE(...)  __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR,LOG_TAG,__VA_ARGS__)

extern "C"
  {
  JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniStoreBitmapData(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject bitmap);
  JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniGetBitmapFromStoredBitmapData(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle);
  JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniFreeBitmapData(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle);
  JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniRotateBitmapCcw90(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle);
  JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniCropBitmap(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle, uint32_t left, uint32_t top, uint32_t right, uint32_t bottom);
  }

class JniBitmap
  {
  public:
    uint32_t* _storedBitmapPixels;
    AndroidBitmapInfo _bitmapInfo;
    JniBitmap()
      {
      _storedBitmapPixels = NULL;
      }
  };

/**crops the bitmap within to be smaller. note that no validations are done*/ //
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniCropBitmap(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle, uint32_t left, uint32_t top, uint32_t right, uint32_t bottom)
  {
  JniBitmap* jniBitmap = (JniBitmap*) env->GetDirectBufferAddress(handle);
  if (jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels == NULL)
    return;
  uint32_t* previousData = jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels;
  uint32_t oldWidth = jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo.width;
  uint32_t newWidth = right - left, newHeight = bottom - top;
  uint32_t* newBitmapPixels = new uint32_t[newWidth * newHeight];
  uint32_t* whereToGet = previousData + left + top * oldWidth;
  uint32_t* whereToPut = newBitmapPixels;
  for (int y = top; y < bottom; ++y)
    {
    memcpy(whereToPut, whereToGet, sizeof(uint32_t) * newWidth);
    whereToGet += oldWidth;
    whereToPut += newWidth;
    }
  //done copying , so replace old data with new one
  delete[] previousData;
  jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels = newBitmapPixels;
  jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo.width = newWidth;
  jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo.height = newHeight;
  }

/**rotates the inner bitmap data by 90 degress counter clock wise*/ //
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniRotateBitmapCcw90(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle)
  {
  JniBitmap* jniBitmap = (JniBitmap*) env->GetDirectBufferAddress(handle);
  if (jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels == NULL)
    return;
  uint32_t* previousData = jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels;
  AndroidBitmapInfo bitmapInfo = jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo;
  uint32_t* newBitmapPixels = new uint32_t[bitmapInfo.height * bitmapInfo.width];
  int whereToPut = 0;
  // A.D D.C
  // ...>...
  // B.C A.B
  for (int x = bitmapInfo.width - 1; x >= 0; --x)
    for (int y = 0; y < bitmapInfo.height; ++y)
      {
      uint32_t pixel = previousData[bitmapInfo.width * y + x];
      newBitmapPixels[whereToPut++] = pixel;
      }
  delete[] previousData;
  jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels = newBitmapPixels;
  uint32_t temp = bitmapInfo.width;
  bitmapInfo.width = bitmapInfo.height;
  bitmapInfo.height = temp;
  }

/**free bitmap*/  //
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniFreeBitmapData(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle)
  {
  JniBitmap* jniBitmap = (JniBitmap*) env->GetDirectBufferAddress(handle);
  if (jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels == NULL)
    return;
  delete[] jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels;
  jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels = NULL;
  delete jniBitmap;
  }

/**restore java bitmap (from JNI data)*/  //
JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniGetBitmapFromStoredBitmapData(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject handle)
  {
  JniBitmap* jniBitmap = (JniBitmap*) env->GetDirectBufferAddress(handle);
  if (jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels == NULL)
    {
    LOGD("no bitmap data was stored. returning null...");
    return NULL;
    }
  //
  //creating a new bitmap to put the pixels into it - using Bitmap Bitmap.createBitmap (int width, int height, Bitmap.Config config) :
  //
  //LOGD("creating new bitmap...");
  jclass bitmapCls = env->FindClass("android/graphics/Bitmap");
  jmethodID createBitmapFunction = env->GetStaticMethodID(bitmapCls, "createBitmap", "(IILandroid/graphics/Bitmap$Config;)Landroid/graphics/Bitmap;");
  jstring configName = env->NewStringUTF("ARGB_8888");
  jclass bitmapConfigClass = env->FindClass("android/graphics/Bitmap$Config");
  jmethodID valueOfBitmapConfigFunction = env->GetStaticMethodID(bitmapConfigClass, "valueOf", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/graphics/Bitmap$Config;");
  jobject bitmapConfig = env->CallStaticObjectMethod(bitmapConfigClass, valueOfBitmapConfigFunction, configName);
  jobject newBitmap = env->CallStaticObjectMethod(bitmapCls, createBitmapFunction, jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo.width, jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo.height, bitmapConfig);
  //
  // putting the pixels into the new bitmap:
  //
  int ret;
  void* bitmapPixels;
  if ((ret = AndroidBitmap_lockPixels(env, newBitmap, &bitmapPixels)) < 0)
    {
    LOGE("AndroidBitmap_lockPixels() failed ! error=%d", ret);
    return NULL;
    }
  uint32_t* newBitmapPixels = (uint32_t*) bitmapPixels;
  int pixelsCount = jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo.height * jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo.width;
  memcpy(newBitmapPixels, jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels, sizeof(uint32_t) * pixelsCount);
  AndroidBitmap_unlockPixels(env, newBitmap);
  //LOGD("returning the new bitmap");
  return newBitmap;
  }

/**store java bitmap as JNI data*/  //
JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL Java_com_jni_bitmap_1operations_JniBitmapHolder_jniStoreBitmapData(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jobject bitmap)
  {
  AndroidBitmapInfo bitmapInfo;
  uint32_t* storedBitmapPixels = NULL;
  //LOGD("reading bitmap info...");
  int ret;
  if ((ret = AndroidBitmap_getInfo(env, bitmap, &bitmapInfo)) < 0)
    {
    LOGE("AndroidBitmap_getInfo() failed ! error=%d", ret);
    return NULL;
    }
  LOGD("width:%d height:%d stride:%d", bitmapInfo.width, bitmapInfo.height, bitmapInfo.stride);
  if (bitmapInfo.format != ANDROID_BITMAP_FORMAT_RGBA_8888)
    {
    LOGE("Bitmap format is not RGBA_8888!");
    return NULL;
    }
  //
  //read pixels of bitmap into native memory :
  //
  //LOGD("reading bitmap pixels...");
  void* bitmapPixels;
  if ((ret = AndroidBitmap_lockPixels(env, bitmap, &bitmapPixels)) < 0)
    {
    LOGE("AndroidBitmap_lockPixels() failed ! error=%d", ret);
    return NULL;
    }
  uint32_t* src = (uint32_t*) bitmapPixels;
  storedBitmapPixels = new uint32_t[bitmapInfo.height * bitmapInfo.width];
  int pixelsCount = bitmapInfo.height * bitmapInfo.width;
  memcpy(storedBitmapPixels, src, sizeof(uint32_t) * pixelsCount);
  AndroidBitmap_unlockPixels(env, bitmap);
  JniBitmap *jniBitmap = new JniBitmap();
  jniBitmap->_bitmapInfo = bitmapInfo;
  jniBitmap->_storedBitmapPixels = storedBitmapPixels;
  return env->NewDirectByteBuffer(jniBitmap, 0);
  }

src/com/jni/bitmap_operations/JniBitmapHolder.java

package com.jni.bitmap_operations;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.util.Log;

public class JniBitmapHolder
  {
  ByteBuffer _handler =null;
  static
    {
    System.loadLibrary("JniBitmapOperations");
    }

  private native ByteBuffer jniStoreBitmapData(Bitmap bitmap);

  private native Bitmap jniGetBitmapFromStoredBitmapData(ByteBuffer handler);

  private native void jniFreeBitmapData(ByteBuffer handler);

  private native void jniRotateBitmapCcw90(ByteBuffer handler);

  private native void jniCropBitmap(ByteBuffer handler,final int left,final int top,final int right,final int bottom);

  public JniBitmapHolder()
    {}

  public JniBitmapHolder(final Bitmap bitmap)
    {
    storeBitmap(bitmap);
    }

  public void storeBitmap(final Bitmap bitmap)
    {
    if(_handler!=null)
      freeBitmap();
    _handler=jniStoreBitmapData(bitmap);
    }

  public void rotateBitmapCcw90()
    {
    if(_handler==null)
      return;
    jniRotateBitmapCcw90(_handler);
    }

  public void cropBitmap(final int left,final int top,final int right,final int bottom)
    {
    if(_handler==null)
      return;
    jniCropBitmap(_handler,left,top,right,bottom);
    }

  public Bitmap getBitmap()
    {
    if(_handler==null)
      return null;
    return jniGetBitmapFromStoredBitmapData(_handler);
    }

  public Bitmap getBitmapAndFree()
    {
    final Bitmap bitmap=getBitmap();
    freeBitmap();
    return bitmap;
    }

  public void freeBitmap()
    {
    if(_handler==null)
      return;
    jniFreeBitmapData(_handler);
    _handler=null;
    }

  @Override
  protected void finalize() throws Throwable
    {
    super.finalize();
    if(_handler==null)
      return;
    Log.w("DEBUG","JNI bitmap wasn't freed nicely.please rememeber to free the bitmap as soon as you can");
    freeBitmap();
    }
  }