“Canvas: trying to draw too large bitmap” when Android N Display Size set larger than Small

Question

I have a published app that is crashing at startup on Android N when the newly introduced Display size OS setting is set to too large a value.

When I lo

Answer 1

The icon files are too large for Android to efficiently and smoothly load. Android recognizes this with its smart algorithms.

You can resize the icon files using Final Android Resizer by asystat. Resize them to "xhdpi" or lower.

Place the resized photos in drawable or overwrite over the existing large icon files.

Then, you're done.