failed binder transaction on widget update

Question

i am updating one bitmap in widget (the whole widget is only one ImageView) like this

remoteViews.setImageViewBitmap(...)

and in some rare

Answer 1

This is caused because all the changes to the RemoteViews are serialised (e.g. setInt and setImageViewBitmap ). The bitmaps are also serialised into an internal bundle. Unfortunately this bundle has a very small size limit.

You can solve it by scaling down the image size this way:

public static Bitmap scaleDownBitmap(Bitmap photo, int newHeight, Context context) {

final float densityMultiplier = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;        

int h= (int) (newHeight*densityMultiplier);
int w= (int) (h * photo.getWidth()/((double) photo.getHeight()));

photo=Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(photo, w, h, true);

return photo;
}

Choose newHeight to be small enough (~100 for every square it should take on the screen) and use it for your widget, and your problem will be solved :)