I am trying to implement the code below converting a image path into a bitmap to display on my activity. I am getting the below error. I have tried a bunch of different solutions but none are working
Strange out of memory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object
Android: Resize a large bitmap file to scaled output file
OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget :- Android
Error: E/dalvikvm-heap(19252): 12742656-byte external allocation too large for this process.
for(int i = 0; i < numItems; i++) {
File imgFile = new File(photoPaths.get(i));
if(imgFile.exists())
{
images[i] = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imgFile.getAbsolutePath());
}
You may consider loading them in a more just-in-time kind of approach, or using the inSampleSize
option of the bitmap factory (i.e., you'd pass a BitmapFactory.Options
in to the factory with inSampleSize
set to, ideally, a power of 2). Also make sure you set inPurgeable
true.
In the event that you are pulling these images from the MediaStore
's ContentProvider
, you can also use thumbnails.
Perhaps you can tell us more about your use case so we can better help.
You're trying to load multiple large bitmaps, at least one of which is ~12MB. They're too large. The solutions you posted DO work. Resize your bitmaps to something much smaller, especially as you're just displaying the bitmaps on the screen.