OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget :- Android

Question

Hi! i am downloading images from Url and displaying them. At download time it is giving out of memory error : bitmap size exceeds VM budget. I am using drawable. Code is below:

HttpClient httpclient= new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse response=(HttpResponse)httpclient.execute(httpRequest);
HttpEntity entity= response.getEntity();
BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity=new BufferedHttpEntity(entity);
InputStream instream = bufHttpEntity.getContent();

Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(instream);
Bitmap useThisBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bm,bm.getWidth(),bm.getHeight(), true);
bm.recycle();
BitmapDrawable bt= new BitmapDrawable(useThisBitmap);
System.gc();

Here is the error: 05-28 14:55:47.251: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4188): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

Answer 1

This issue seems to have been reported several times, here and here for instance... sorry Shalini but if it's the same issue, it seems that there is no solution at all...

The only advice of Romain Guy is to use less memory...

So, good luck to think your stuff differently...

Answer 2

If the image is really big this solution should help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477572/android-strange-out-of-memory-issue/823966#823966

Answer 3

You could check the image size and then downsample it by appropriate factor.

See this question: Handling large Bitmaps

Answer 4

Finally, after resample the image as suggested above, you may call bitmap_file.recycle().