OutOfMemory in Android

Question

In the solution for out of memory: Strange out of memory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object, it talks about using: decodeFile(File f). How do you handle internal image files that are referred to as R.id.something? these resources are seen as integers?

Answer 1

You can use decodeResource():

Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.id.someimage);

or

Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.id.someimage,options);