Very large SOAP response - Android- out of memory error

Question

I have an application where i need to download a large amount of data via a SOAP call to a webservice into the application when it is first run. The response is then sent to

Answer 1

Fixed!

I downloaded/copied HttpTransportSE java class from here (after copied, some code errors can occur, but they are all quick fixable) and added to my package:

https://github.com/mosabua/ksoap2-android/blob/master/ksoap2-j2se/src/main/java/org/ksoap2/transport/HttpTransportSE.java

removed from my Connection class this row:

import org.ksoap2.transport.HttpsTransportSE;

and substituted this code in my new HttpTransportSE.java file:

if (debug) {
                    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                    byte[] buf = new byte[256];
                    while (true) {
                        int rd = is.read(buf, 0, 256);
                        if (rd == -1)
                            break;
                        bos.write(buf, 0, rd);
                    }
                    bos.flush();
                    buf = bos.toByteArray(); //Goes out of memory here
                    responseDump = new String(buf);
                    is.close();
                    is = new ByteArrayInputStream(buf);
    }

with this

if (debug) {
    FileOutputStream bos = new FileOutputStream(file);

            byte[] buf = new byte[256];

            while (true) {
                int rd = is.read(buf, 0, 256);
                if (rd == -1) {
                    break;
                }
                bos.write(buf, 0, rd);
            }
            bos.flush();
}

where "file" is a simple file object like new File("/sdcard/","myFile.xml") for example