Android png images big in memory

Question

I have an application in android that has an imageflipper. Problem is, after about 8 images loaded to memory, I get an out of memory error.

Well, I tried to do dyna

Answer 1

Use BitmapFactory.Options

BitmapFactory.Options opts = new BitmapFactory.Options();
opt.inSampleSize = 2;
//this will decrease bitmap size,
// but also affect quality of the image, 
//so just play with this value to spot the good one;
Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(fileName, opts);