OutofMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget (Android)

Question

Getting an Exception in the BitmapFactory. Not sure what is the issue. (Well I can guess the issue, but not sure why its happening)

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7906): jav         


        

Answer 1

With reference to this link, please note the outOfMemory error can be solved by the following way:

public Bitmap decodeFile(String filePath) {

Bitmap bitmap = null;
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options(); 
options.inPurgeable = true;

try {
BitmapFactory.Options.class.getField("inNativeAlloc").setBoolean(options,true);

} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (SecurityException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

if(filePath != null)
{
    bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filePath, options);               
}

return bitmap;
}