How to fix a "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget " error on android

Hi all, I've seen this question asked many times but none of the answers really made sense in what I'm doing... I have an android game (see source at google source control) It's a card game, and I've used a method that redraws each hand every round - that might be wasteful but I couldnt think of a better way to do it. Here is the code for the redrawHand method:

private void redrawHand(Hand hand) {
  ImageView[] cardView = hand.getCardsViews();
  View container = hand.getContainer();
  for (int i = 0; i < GameData.YANIV_NUM_CARDS; i++) {
   PlayingCard card = hand.getCardByLocation(i);
   if (card != null) {
    // Show Card
    cardView[i].setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    int resId;
    if (hand.shouldCardsBeShown()) {
     resId = card.getImageResourceId();
    } else {
     resId = R.drawable.back;
    }
    cardView[i].setImageResource(resId);
// TODO: Disgusting patch, need to fix asap!!!
if (hand.isHumanPlayer()) {
 // Show isSelected
 // when selected, move up 15 pixels
 boolean isSelected = hand.isCardSelected(i);
 ((LinearLayout.LayoutParams) cardView[i].getLayoutParams()).bottomMargin = isSelected? 15 : 0;
}   } else {
cardView[i].setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);   }  }  // Set player name hand.getHandLabelView().setText(hand.getHandLabel());  container.requestLayout(); }

After installing ACRA (http://code.google.com/p/acra/wiki/ACRAHowTo) I have started getting crash reports from devices claiming saying the following:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeAsset(Native Method) at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:363) at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:212) at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:673) at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1639) at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:535) at android.widget.ImageView.resolveUri(ImageView.java:541) at android.widget.ImageView.setImageResource(ImageView.java:293) at com.geekadoo.ui.Yaniv.redrawHand(Yaniv.java:765) at com.geekadoo.ui.Yaniv.performYaniv(Yaniv.java:539) at com.geekadoo.ui.Yaniv.performYanivHandler(Yaniv.java:503) at com.geekadoo.ui.Yaniv.access$1(Yaniv.java:502) at com.geekadoo.ui.Yaniv$2.onClick(Yaniv.java:323) at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2196) at android.view.View.onTouchEvent(View.java:3849) at android.widget.TextView.onTouchEvent(TextView.java:6376) at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:3385) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:872) at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1764) at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1213) at android.app.Activity.dispatchTouchEvent(Activity.java:2066) at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1748) at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1561) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3977) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:782) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I am not able to understand why this is happening - is there a memory leak? should I somehow release something that I'm missing? Please help, there are a lot of people that can't enjoy this free open source game because of this. Thanks!

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