I'm getting OutOfMemory errors sometimes with my Bitmap-heavy Android application

Question

I'm making an android app that is very picture-oriented, thus I'm using a lot of Bitmaps. I know that it is good practice to use Bitmap.recycle(); to help with garbage collection, but the rest of my app is not allowing me to do so.

I made a class called URLImageView that extends ImageView which allows you to set the image from a URL. I have another class that I found online called SlidingUpPanelLayout which extends ViewGroup, and if I call Bitmap.recycle();, I get an error saying that it can't draw recycled bitmaps.

Can anyone think of a good work-around so that I free up resources, but still have them available for the SlidingUpPanelLayout?

Below is the URLImageView class that I created.

public class URLImageView extends ImageView
{
private ImageLoadTask task = null;
public URLImageView(Context context)
{
    this(context, null, 0);
}

public URLImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
{
    this(context, attrs, 0);
}

public URLImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
{
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}

public void setImageFromURL(String url)
{
    //System.gc();
    Bitmap bitmap = ImageCache.getBitmapFromCache(url);
    if(bitmap == null)//the bitmap was not found in the cache, so let's actually build it
    {
        if(task != null)
            task.cancel(true);
        task = new ImageLoadTask();

        if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11)//load the images in parallel instead of waiting
        {
            task.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR, url);
        } 
        else //too bad. we have to load them in series :(
        {
            task.execute(url);
        }
    }
    else//the bitmap was in the cache, so just set it
    {
        this.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
    }

    //if(bitmap != null)
    //  bitmap.recycle();
    bitmap = null;
}

private class ImageLoadTask extends AsyncTask<String, String, Bitmap>
{
    private String url;

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute()
    {
        setImageResource(R.drawable.blank);
    }

    @Override
    protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... args)
    {
        try
        {
            //System.gc();
            url = args[0];
            Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream((InputStream)new URL(url).getContent());
            return bitmap;
        }

        catch (Exception e)
        {
            return null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap bitmap)
    {
        //System.out.println("onPostExecute...");
        if(bitmap != null)
        {
            ImageCache.addBitmapToCache(url, bitmap);
            URLImageView.this.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

            //bitmap.recycle();
            bitmap = null;
        }

        else
        {
            setImageResource(R.drawable.blank);
        }
        task = null;
    }
}
}

scale down your image. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16765899/out-of-memory-error-with-bitmap/16766123#16766123 — Raghunandan, Mar 21 '14 at 05:34
i am stuck up similar problem u can refer to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20718060/app-crashes-after-launch — Nihar, Mar 21 '14 at 05:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '14 at 05:39

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This is because of large bitmap which occupies everything in RAM . :D

You can load a scaled image, which will decrease a lot the memory usage, but you have to know your images to not lose too much quality of it.

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 2;
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(stream, null, options);

Reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/BitmapFactory.Options.html

answered Mar 21 '14 at 05:39

MohK

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Very good. Is there a way to view my memory usage in Eclipse so I can mess with options to make it as streamlined as possible? – jas7457 Mar 21 '14 at 05:53
Here is a very good blog regarding it. http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2011/03/memory-analysis-for-android.html – MohK Mar 21 '14 at 05:59

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 05:36

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use this function http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.html#createBitmap(android.graphics.Bitmap, int, int, int, int) then u dont need to recycle. if u cant downsize use lrucache

answered Mar 21 '14 at 05:36

Pulkit Sethi

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I'm getting OutOfMemory errors sometimes with my Bitmap-heavy Android application

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