Android out of memory on image capture

Question

I have an Activity which takes photos (with full possible resolution, so quite large), the application have then the chance to analyze them. Only one photo is handled at a t

Answer 1

Since you run out of memory after 4-5 pictures you probably arent calling yourBitmap.recycle(); after it has been saved to the SD-card?

Also in the onPictureTaken() method you could save the tempData from the picture into a bitmap using the Bitmap.Config.RGB_565 instead of ARGB(default) if you don't need the alpha channel.

   // Create options to help use less memory   
    Options opt = new Options();
    opt.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.RGB_565;

   // Decode the tempdata into a bitmap, with the options as the last argument 
    bitmapFromRawCameraTempData = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(rawCameraTempData, 0, rawCameraTempData.length, opt);