What to do on TransactionTooLargeException

Question

I got a TransactionTooLargeException. Not reproducible. In the docs it says

The Binder transaction failed because it was too large.

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Answer 1

I found the root cause of this (we got both "adding window failed" and file descriptor leak as mvds says).

There is a bug in BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor() of Android 4.4. It only occurs when inPurgeable and inInputShareable of BitmapOptions are set to true. This causes many problem in many places interact with files.

Note that the method is also called from MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.getThumbnail().

Universal Image Loader is affected by this issue. Picasso and Glide seems to be not affected. https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader/issues/1020