java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

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Android: Strange out of memory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object

I am getting following error when I load bitmap on imageview in AsyncTask:

Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

Is there any help?

My guess is that you need more physical memory, a larger allocation for your JVM, or a smaller image. — duffymo, Jul 15 '11 at 09:31
@nirav: Please look at the "Related" links (on the right of this page) — Mat, Jul 15 '11 at 09:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '11 at 09:51

It could be helpful to watch the memory management session of this year's google i/o: Memory management for Android Apps Here, Patrick Dubroy explains some cases which can lead to memory leaks (particularly keeping a long lived reference to the application's context via static members). He also talks about the garbage collector.

Gaucho · Answer 2 · 2012-12-27T17:54:01.353

I had the same problem. I solved the problem resampling the bitmap to lower resolution, and then using imageView.clearAnimation(); before to load the new bitmap on the imageView. Vote me if this helps you too. Regards. Note: in the following sample, data contains the new image data for the camera image picker and imageView is our ImageView.

    Bitmap photo=null;
    imageView.clearAnimation();     
    Uri photoUri =  data.getData(); 
    InputStream imageStream = null;
    try {
    imageStream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(photoUri);
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    }

    BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    options.inPurgeable = true;
    options.inSampleSize=2;
    Rect outPadding= new Rect(-1, -1, -1, -1);
    photo = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imageStream, outPadding, options);
    imageView.setImageBitmap(photo);

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

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