“Bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture”

Question

I'm loading a bitmap into an ImageView, and seeing this error. I gather this limit relates to a size limit for OpenGL hardware textures (2048x2048). The image I need to load is a pinch-zoom image of about 4,000 pixels high.

I've tried turning off hardware acceleration in the manifest, but no joy.

    <application
        android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
        ....
        >

Is it possible to load an image larger than 2048 pixels into an ImageView?

Answer 1

NOTE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO PUT IMAGES OF SMALL SIZE:

Pilot_51's solution (moving your images to drawable-nodpi folder) works, but has another problem: It makes images TOO SMALL on screen unless the images are resized to a very large (like 2000 x 3800) resolution to fit screen -- then it makes your app heavier.

SOLUTION: put your image files in drawable-hdpi -- It worked like a charm for me.

Answer 2

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    ///*
    if (requestCode == PICK_FROM_FILE && resultCode == RESULT_OK && null != data){



        uri = data.getData();

        String[] prjection ={MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA};

        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri,prjection,null,null,null);

        cursor.moveToFirst();

        int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(prjection[0]);

        ImagePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);

        cursor.close();

        FixBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(ImagePath);

        ShowSelectedImage = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView);

      //  FixBitmap = new BitmapDrawable(ImagePath);
        int nh = (int) ( FixBitmap.getHeight() * (512.0 / FixBitmap.getWidth()) );
        FixBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(FixBitmap, 512, nh, true);

       // ShowSelectedImage.setImageBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(ImagePath));

        ShowSelectedImage.setImageBitmap(FixBitmap);

    }
}

This code is work

Answer 3

This isn't a direct answer to the question (loading images >2048), but a possible solution for anyone experiencing the error.

In my case, the image was smaller than 2048 in both dimensions (1280x727 to be exact) and the issue was specifically experienced on a Galaxy Nexus. The image was in the drawable folder and none of the qualified folders. Android assumes drawables without a density qualifier are mdpi and scales them up or down for other densities, in this case scaled up 2x for xhdpi. Moving the culprit image to drawable-nodpi to prevent scaling solved the problem.

Answer 4

Instead of spending hours upon hours trying to write/debug all this downsampling code manually, why not use Picasso? It was made for dealing with bitmaps of all types and/or sizes.

I have used this single line of code to remove my "bitmap too large...." problem:

Picasso.load(resourceId).fit().centerCrop().into(imageView);

Answer 5

As pointed by Larcho, starting from API level 10, you can use BitmapRegionDecoder to load specific regions from an image and with that, you can accomplish to show a large image in high resolution by allocating in memory just the needed regions. I've recently developed a lib that provides the visualisation of large images with touch gesture handling. The source code and samples are available here.

Answer 6

Scale down image:

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;

// Set height and width in options, does not return an image and no resource taken
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imagefile, null, options);

int pow = 0;
while (options.outHeight >> pow > reqHeight || options.outWidth >> pow > reqWidth)
    pow += 1;
options.inSampleSize = 1 << pow; 
options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
image = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imagefile, null, options);

The image will be scaled down at the size of reqHeight and reqWidth. As I understand inSampleSize only take in a power of 2 values.