[Android] Out of memory error with big images

[svajoklis-1]

We are using this library in our project and we are resizing images to {maxWidth: 1024, maxHeight: 1024}. When we try to pick an image that's very large (16 MB in size) the showImagePicker method crashes with:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.devbridge.TeamApp2_Android.debug, PID: 2504 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 203079692 byte allocation with 4194304 free bytes and 53MB until OOM at dalvik.system.VMRuntime.newNonMovableArray(Native Method) at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream(Native Method) at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStreamInternal(BitmapFactory.java:635) at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:611) at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeFile(BitmapFactory.java:391) at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeFile(BitmapFactory.java:417) at com.imagepicker.ImagePickerModule.getResizedImage(ImagePickerModule.java:495) at com.imagepicker.ImagePickerModule.onActivityResult(ImagePickerModule.java:400) at com.imagepicker.ImagePickerPackage.handleActivityResult(ImagePickerPackage.java:46)

The issue is not apparent in Android Emulator with enough VM Heap size, but when it's reduced to realistic sizes (64 for example) or when testing on a real device - application crashes as soon as it tries to resize the image.

[yfuks]

Did the crash appears on the first resize ?

Android devices can have as little as 16MB of memory available to a single application.
http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/index.html

If it's on the first resize you need to allocate more memory to your app.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/11275704

A work around is also to not resized the given image

[yfuks]

No response i close.

[rahuljiresal]

This issue still exists. I need the images to be resized so my server API accepts them. But this always crashes while trying to resize them. From what I could tell, its the BitmapFactory.decodeFile(realPath, options) that is the problem.

The solution would be to change the BitmapFactory options as mentioned here --

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
 options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
 options.inPreferredConfig = Config.RGB_565;
 options.inDither = true;

[davidruisinger]

I was running into the same issue. Adding android:largeHeap="true" to <application> tag in AndroidManifest.xml solved the issue for me on my physical Android but I'm a bit concerned that this might still be an issue for some devices with less memory?!?