Out of Memory Error with Bitmap

Out of Memory error with Bitmap

OutofMemory occurs when your app exceeds memory allocated in heap. The bitmap is too large to fit in memory ie heap. In such a case you run out of memory. You need to scale down the bitmap and then use the same. For that check the link below

http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/load-bitmap.html.

There is also a blog @ http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html (avoiding memory leaks)

 public static Bitmap decodeFile(File f,int WIDTH,int HIGHT){
 try {
     //Decode image size
     BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
     o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
     BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f),null,o);

     //The new size we want to scale to
     final int REQUIRED_WIDTH=WIDTH;
     final int REQUIRED_HIGHT=HIGHT;
     //Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.
     int scale=1;
     while(o.outWidth/scale/2>=REQUIRED_WIDTH && o.outHeight/scale/2>=REQUIRED_HIGHT)
         scale*=2;

     //Decode with inSampleSize
     BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
     o2.inSampleSize=scale;
     return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o2);
 } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {}
 return null;
}

Quoting from the docs

The BitmapFactory class provides several decoding methods (decodeByteArray(), decodeFile(), decodeResource(), etc.) for creating a Bitmap from various sources. Choose the most appropriate decode method based on your image data source. These methods attempt to allocate memory for the constructed bitmap and therefore can easily result in an OutOfMemory exception. Each type of decode method has additional signatures that let you specify decoding options via the BitmapFactory.Options class.

Setting the inJustDecodeBounds property to true while decoding avoids memory allocation, returning null for the bitmap object but setting outWidth, outHeight and outMimeType. This technique allows you to read the dimensions and type of the image data prior to construction (and memory allocation) of the bitmap.

Also check this link for memory management.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CruQY55HOk

Strange OutOfMemory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object

The Android Training class, "Displaying Bitmaps Efficiently", offers some great information for understanding and dealing with the exception `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget when loading Bitmaps.

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Read Bitmap Dimensions and Type

The BitmapFactory class provides several decoding methods (decodeByteArray(), decodeFile(), decodeResource(), etc.) for creating a Bitmap from various sources. Choose the most appropriate decode method based on your image data source. These methods attempt to allocate memory for the constructed bitmap and therefore can easily result in an OutOfMemory exception. Each type of decode method has additional signatures that let you specify decoding options via the BitmapFactory.Options class. Setting the inJustDecodeBounds property to true while decoding avoids memory allocation, returning null for the bitmap object but setting outWidth, outHeight and outMimeType. This technique allows you to read the dimensions and type of the image data prior to the construction (and memory allocation) of the bitmap.

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.id.myimage, options);
int imageHeight = options.outHeight;
int imageWidth = options.outWidth;
String imageType = options.outMimeType;

To avoid java.lang.OutOfMemory exceptions, check the dimensions of a bitmap before decoding it unless you absolutely trust the source to provide you with predictably sized image data that comfortably fits within the available memory.

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Load a scaled-down version into Memory

Now that the image dimensions are known, they can be used to decide if the full image should be loaded into memory or if a subsampled version should be loaded instead. Here are some factors to consider:

• Estimated memory usage of loading the full image in memory.
• The amount of memory you are willing to commit to loading this image given any other memory requirements of your application.
• Dimensions of the target ImageView or UI component that the image is to be loaded into.
• Screen size and density of the current device.

For example, it’s not worth loading a 1024x768 pixel image into memory if it will eventually be displayed in a 128x96 pixel thumbnail in an ImageView.

To tell the decoder to subsample the image, loading a smaller version into memory, set inSampleSize to true in your BitmapFactory.Options object. For example, an image with resolution 2048x1536 that is decoded with an inSampleSize of 4 produces a bitmap of approximately 512x384. Loading this into memory uses 0.75MB rather than 12MB for the full image (assuming a bitmap configuration of ARGB_8888). Here’s a method to calculate a sample size value that is a power of two based on a target width and height:

public static int calculateInSampleSize(
        BitmapFactory.Options options, int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {
    // Raw height and width of image
    final int height = options.outHeight;
    final int width = options.outWidth;
    int inSampleSize = 1;

    if (height > reqHeight || width > reqWidth) {

        final int halfHeight = height / 2;
        final int halfWidth = width / 2;

        // Calculate the largest inSampleSize value that is a power of 2 and keeps both
        // height and width larger than the requested height and width.
        while ((halfHeight / inSampleSize) > reqHeight
                && (halfWidth / inSampleSize) > reqWidth) {
            inSampleSize *= 2;
        }
    }

    return inSampleSize;
}

Note: A power of two value is calculated because the decoder uses a
final value by rounding down to the nearest power of two, as per the
inSampleSize documentation.

To use this method, first decode with inJustDecodeBounds set to true, pass the options through and then decode again using the new inSampleSizevalue andinJustDecodeBoundsset tofalse`:

public static Bitmap decodeSampledBitmapFromResource(Resources res, int resId,
    int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {

    // First decode with inJustDecodeBounds=true to check dimensions
    final BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
    BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, resId, options);

    // Calculate inSampleSize
    options.inSampleSize = calculateInSampleSize(options, reqWidth, reqHeight);

    // Decode bitmap with inSampleSize set
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
    return BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, resId, options);
}

This method makes it easy to load a bitmap of arbitrarily large size into an ImageView that displays a 100x100 pixel thumbnail, as shown in the following example code:

mImageView.setImageBitmap(
    decodeSampledBitmapFromResource(getResources(), R.id.myimage, 100, 100));

You can follow a similar process to decode bitmaps from other sources, by substituting the appropriate BitmapFactory.decode* method as needed.

out of memory error when using bitmap in recyclerview

Hey you don't have to decode drawable to bitmap.

you can do it like this.

imageview.setImageResource(R.drawable.whatever_the_image_is)

Hope this helps you

Out of memory error in android bitmap

You are getting OutOfMemoryError because you haven't recycle
those bitmaps you used

try to recycle those bitmaps after you used them

bitmap = android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(cr, imageUri);
  photo_new= rotateImage(bitmap, 90);
  ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

  photo_new.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, stream);
  byte[] byteArray = stream.toByteArray();
  bitmap.recycle();
  Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),new_class.class);
  i.putExtra("image", byteArray);

  startActivity(i);
  byteArray=null;

bitmap.copy() throws out of memory error

First of all try to find a little time to read good official documentation about bitmaps: Displaying Bitmaps Efficiently

It will give you understanding why and when java.lang.OutofMemoryError happens. And how to avoid it.

What about your question: see this article: Android: convert Immutable Bitmap into Mutable

But from API Level 11 only options.inMutable available to load the
file into a mutable bitmap.

So, if we are building application with API level less than 11, then
we have to find some other alternatives.

One alternative is creating another bitmap by copying the source

bitmap. mBitmap = mBitmap.copy(ARGB_8888 ,true);

But the will throw OutOfMemoryException if the source file is big.
Actually incase if we want to edit an original file, then we will face
this issue. We should be able to load at-least image into memory, but
most we can not allocate another copy into memory.

So, we have to save the decoded bytes into some where and clear
existing bitmap, then create a new mutable bitmap and load back the
saved bytes into bitmap again. Even to copy bytes we cannot create
another ByteBuffer inside the memory. In that case need to use
MappedByteBuffer that will allocate bytes inside a disk file.

Following code would explain clearly:

//this is the file going to use temporally to save the bytes. 

File file = new File("/mnt/sdcard/sample/temp.txt");
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();

//Open an RandomAccessFile
/*Make sure you have added uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"
into AndroidManifest.xml file*/
RandomAccessFile randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw"); 

// get the width and height of the source bitmap.
int width = bitmap.getWidth();
int height = bitmap.getHeight();

//Copy the byte to the file
//Assume source bitmap loaded using options.inPreferredConfig = Config.ARGB_8888;
FileChannel channel = randomAccessFile.getChannel();
MappedByteBuffer map = channel.map(MapMode.READ_WRITE, 0, width*height*4);
bitmap.copyPixelsToBuffer(map);
//recycle the source bitmap, this will be no longer used.
bitmap.recycle();
//Create a new bitmap to load the bitmap again.
bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Config.ARGB_8888);
map.position(0);
//load it back from temporary 
bitmap.copyPixelsFromBuffer(map);
//close the temporary file and channel , then delete that also
channel.close();
randomAccessFile.close();

And here is sample code.

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