bitmap size exceeds VM budget in android

Question

Getting this

05-25 23:55:59.145: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3257): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

at this code of min

Answer 1

Android has a relatively limited amount of spare of memory for bitmaps (which can get smaller depending on what else is going on in the device). So the other answers are correct...

• scale the bitmap down (in pixels or resolution)
• only display the subset of teh bitmap that is visible to the user.

Check out Displaying a bitmap of arbitrary size without running out of memory for background on what's going on under the covers - which might help you avoid the OOM.