Why does my Android App crash when loading image from gallery the 2nd time?

Question

Hi folks,

I've written an app, thats loading images either using the android gallery app or by taking a photo using the cam.

When I now load an image using the gallery, everything is fine. When the code is being executed a second time (for loading another image), the application crashes.

            try {
            Uri data = intent.getData();
            ContentResolver cr = this.getContentResolver();
            Bitmap mBitmap = null;
            mBitmap = Media.getBitmap(cr, data);
            imageView.setImageBitmap(mBitmap);
        } catch(Exception e){
            showToast(this, "Failed loading image from gallery");
            return;
        }

The code crashes at the line mBimap = Media.getBitmap(cr, data);. Everything is initialized, there are no null values etc. The strange thing is: no exception is thrown, I don't get into the catch block to determine whats going wrong.

Does anyone have an idea about this? Am I not allowed to "re-use" the content resolver? Do I have to free it after the first usage or something like this?

Answer 1

Thanks a lot! The look at the logs definately told me, that I was allocating too much space at one time.

After a lot trial&error I finally found out how to load thumbs from the gallery and fixed the issue that way. Thanks a lot for your answers!

Answer 2

Just for the record, can you share us your solution?

Did you use sampleSize?

BitmapFactory.Options options=new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 10;
Bitmap preview_bitmap=BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is,null,options);