how to handle out of memory error?

Question

dear friends,

i am using following code to display bitmap in my imageview. when i try to load image of size for example bigger than 1.5MB it give me error any one suggest me solution?

  try {  

                         URL aURL = new URL(myRemoteImages[val]);  
                         URLConnection conn = aURL.openConnection(); 

                         conn.connect();  
                         InputStream is = null;
                         try
                         {
                             is= conn.getInputStream();  
                         }catch(IOException e)
                         {


                             return 0;

                         }
                         int a=  conn.getConnectTimeout();
                         BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);  

                         Bitmap bm;
                         try
                         {
                             bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis);
                         }catch(Exception ex)
                         {
                             bis.close(); 
                             is.close();  
                             return 0; 
                         }
                         bis.close();  
                         is.close();  
                         img.setImageBitmap(bm);

                    } catch (IOException e) {  
                        return 0;
                    }  

                    return 1;

Log cat

06-14 12:03:11.701: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(443): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception 06-14 12:03:11.861: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(443): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget 06-14 12:03:11.861: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(443): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream(Native Method)

Answer 1

You should decode with inSampleSize option to reduce memory consumption. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477572/android-strange-out-of-memory-issue/823966#823966

Another option inJustDecodeBounds can help you to find correct inSampleSize value http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/bd858a63563a6d4a