Out of Memory error while running project in android studio

Question

I am getting Out of memory error while running my project. I understand this error because of large background images in the project. I came across some articles to scale down an image and then load them. How can I scale down all the images and load them efficiently in the project.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477572/strange-out-of-memory-issue-while-loading-an-image-to-a-bitmap-object — IntelliJ Amiya, Nov 24 '15 at 12:57
Probably you can have a look into this article http://stackoverflow.com/a/8497703/2793134 — Nitin Mesta, Nov 24 '15 at 12:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 24 '15 at 13:00

Picasso is a great library for handling images for Android.

http://square.github.io/picasso/

Loading an image for a specific size and can easy like this:

Picasso.with(context)
  .load(url)
  .resize(50, 50)
  .centerCrop()
  .into(imageView)

If you are truly showing alot of images, consider setting android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="foo.bar"
    android:hardwareAccelerated="true">
...
</manifest>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 24 '15 at 12:59

To reduce the size of images change the inSampleSize of each image. If inSampleSize is set to a value > 1 then the decoder subsamples the original image and returns you a smaller image to save memory. inSampleSize can be found in BitmapFactory.Options

Go to the following link for more details on this :-

http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/load-bitmap.html

If your images still lags you can scale them down further by help of Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(Bitmap src, int dstWidth, int dstHeight, boolean filter) method.

Out of Memory error while running project in android studio

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