OutOfMemory exception when loading bitmap from external storage

Question

In my application I load a couple of images from JPEG and PNG files. When I place all those files into assets directory and load it in this way, everything is ok:

Answer 1

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public static Bitmap getImageBitmap(String path) throws IOException{
        // Allocate files and objects outside of timingoops             
        File file = new File(thumbpath);        
        RandomAccessFile in = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rws");
        final FileChannel channel = in.getChannel();
        final int fileSize = (int)channel.size();
        final byte[] testBytes = new byte[fileSize];
        final ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.allocate(fileSize);
        final byte[] buffArray = buff.array();
        @SuppressWarnings("unused")
        final int buffBase = buff.arrayOffset();

        // Read from channel into buffer, and batch read from buffer to byte array;
        long time1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
        channel.position(0);
        channel.read(buff);
        buff.flip();
        buff.get(testBytes);
        long time1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
        Bitmap bmp = Bitmap_process(buffArray);
        long time2 = System.currentTimeMillis();        
        System.out.println("Time taken to load: " + (time2 - time1) + "ms");

        return bmp;
    }

    public static Bitmap Bitmap_process(byte[] buffArray){
        BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();

        options.inDither=false;                     //Disable Dithering mode
        options.inPurgeable=true;                   //Tell to gc that whether it needs free memory, the Bitmap can be cleared
        options.inInputShareable=true;              //Which kind of reference will be used to recover the Bitmap data after being clear, when it will be used in the future
        options.inTempStorage=new byte[32 * 1024];  //Allocate some temporal memory for decoding

        options.inSampleSize=1;

        Bitmap imageBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(buffArray, 0, buffArray.length, options);
        return imageBitmap;
    }