Android:java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allo

Question

I want to show the Bitmap image in ImageView from sd card which is stored already. After run my application is crash and getting OutOfMemoryError error of:

(java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 23970828 byte allocation with 2097152 free bytes and 2MB until OOM)

I have no idea or why its out of memory. I think my image size is very large so I tried to change it.

Iterator<String> it = imageArray.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
  Object element = it.next();
  String objElement = element.toString();
  Log.e("objElement ", " = " + objElement);
  final ImageView imageView = new ImageView (getContext());
  final ProgressBar pBar = new ProgressBar(getContext(), null, 
                                           android.R.attr.progressBarStyleSmall);
  imageView.setTag(it);
  pBar.setTag(it);

  imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.img_placeholder);
  pBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

  if (objElement.endsWith(mp3_Pattern)) {
     Log.e("Mp3 ", " ends with ");
     pBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
     imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.audio_control);
  }
  if (objElement.endsWith(png_Pattern)) {
     Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(objElement);
     int size = Math.min(bitmap.getWidth(), bitmap.getHeight());
     int x = (bitmap.getWidth() - size) / 2;
     int y = (bitmap.getHeight() - size) / 2;
     Bitmap bitmap_Resul = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap, x, y, size, size);
     Log.e("bitmap_Resul "," = "+ bitmap_Resul);

     if (bitmap_Resul != bitmap) {
        bitmap.recycle();
     }
     imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap_Resul);
     Log.e("png_Pattern ", " ends with ");
     Log.e(" bitmap "," = " + bitmap);
  }

  holder.linearLayout.addView(imageView);
  holder.linearLayout.addView(pBar);

The log cat information:

08-27 14:11:15.307    1857-1857/? E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.example.tazeen.classnkk, PID: 1857
    java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 23970828 byte allocation with 2097152 free bytes and 2MB until OOM
            at dalvik.system.VMRuntime.newNonMovableArray(Native Method)
            at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate(Native Method)
            at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:812)
            at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:789)
            at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:709)
            at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:634)
            at com.example.tazeen.classnkk.AllPosts_Page$MyListAdapter.getView(AllPosts_Page.java:357)
            at android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:2347)
            at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1864)
            at android.widget.ListView.fillDown(ListView.java:698)
            at android.widget.ListView.fillFromTop(ListView.java:759)
            at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1659)
            at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:2151)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15671)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5038)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1703)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1557)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1466)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15671)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5038)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:579)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:514)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15671)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5038)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1703)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1557)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1466)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15671)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5038)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:579)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:514)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15671)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5038)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:2086)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1843)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1061)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:5885)
            at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:767)
            at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:580)
            at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:550)
            at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:753)
            at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5257)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)

Answer 1

I have resolved this problem by resizing the image to lower size. I am using xamarin form. decreasing the size of the PNG image resolved the problem.

Answer 2

I got below error

"E/art: Throwing OutOfMemoryError "Failed to allocate a 47251468 byte allocation with 16777120 free bytes and 23MB until OOM"

after adding android:largeHeap="true" in AndroidManifest.xml then I rid of all the errors

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/guruji"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:largeHeap="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

Answer 3

Your app is crashing because your image size (in MB Or KB) is too large so it is not allocating space for that. So before pasting your image in drawable just reduce the size.

OR

You can add Following in application tag at Manifest.xml

 android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
    android:largeHeap="true"
    android:allowBackup="true"

After Adding this App will not Crash.

• always use less sizes images in App.
• If You adding large sizes of images in app , you should add above syntex, but App size will increase.

Answer 4

I ran into this problem when I didn't kill off my old activity when moving on to a new activity. I fixed it with finish();

    Intent goToMain = new Intent(this,MainActivity.class);
    startActivity(goToMain);
    finish();

Answer 5

Actually you can add in your manifest these lines android:hardwareAccelerated="false" , android:largeHeap="true" it is working for some situations, but be aware that the other part of code can be arguing with this.

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:largeHeap="true"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

Answer 6

I have found that images in the 'drawable' folder will get converted to a much larger image on high def phones. For example, a 200k image will be resampled to a higher res, like 800k or 32000k. I had to discover this on my own and to date have not seen documentation for this heap memory trap. To prevent this I put everything in a drawable-nodpi folder (in addition to using 'options' in BitmapFactory based on the particular device heap). I can't afford to have the size of my app bloated with multiple drawable folders, particularly as the range of screen defs is so vast now. The tricky thing is studio now doesn't specifically indicate the 'drawable-nodpi' folder as such in the project view, it just shows a 'drawable' folder. If you're not careful, when you drop an image to this folder in studio, it won't actually get dropped into the drawable-nodpi:

Careful here 'backgroundtest' did not actually go to drawable-nodpi and will 
be resampled higher, such as 4x or 16x of the original dimensions for high def screens.

Be sure to click down to the nodpi folder in the dialogue, as the project view won't show you all drawable folders separately like it used to, so it won't be immediately apparent that it went to wrong one. Studio recreated the vanilla 'drawable' at some point for me after I had deleted it long ago: