Exception : OutOfMemoryError

Question

I have published my app in play store. Now In Crashes and ANRs I am getting following errors on 2 devices (Galaxy Note3 and Galaxy Note II). I dont know how to solve these e

Answer 1

Sometimes when we use so many images & backgrounds in applications, it takes lot of space on android RAM. This leads to force close your application by “Out of memory Bound Exception”.

It seems from your crash logs that you have drawable which is quite large, so to avoid the OutOfMemory you have keep drawables that would not take much memory. You can scale down the drawable either as some guys suggested in the answers.

If you don't want go through that and you have not much large size drawable then you can opt to increase your application heap size to large that would increase the heap memory.

How to increase heap size

You can use android:largeHeap="true" in application tag of Android manifest(Reference here) to request a larger heap size, but this will not work on any pre Honeycomb devices.

On pre 2.3 devices, you can use the VMRuntime class, but this will not work on Gingerbread and above See below how to do it.

VMRuntime.getRuntime().setMinimumHeapSize(BIGGER_SIZE);

Before Setting HeapSize make sure that you have entered the appropriate size which will not affect other application or OS functionality.

Before settings just check how much size your app takes & then set the size just to fulfill your job. Dont use so much of memory otherwise other apps might affect.

Update

Note : It is always best practice to free the allocated memory of the bitmaps when these wont longer required, you can this bitmap.recycle()