Strange OutOfMemory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object

To fix the OutOfMemory error, you should do something like this:

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 8;
Bitmap preview_bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is, null, options);

This inSampleSize option reduces memory consumption.

Here's a complete method. First it reads image size without decoding the content itself. Then it finds the best inSampleSize value, it should be a power of 2, and finally the image is decoded.

// Decodes image and scales it to reduce memory consumption
private Bitmap decodeFile(File f) {
    try {
        // Decode image size
        BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
        BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o);

        // The new size we want to scale to
        final int REQUIRED_SIZE=70;

        // Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.
        int scale = 1;
        while(o.outWidth / scale / 2 >= REQUIRED_SIZE && 
              o.outHeight / scale / 2 >= REQUIRED_SIZE) {
            scale *= 2;
        }

        // Decode with inSampleSize
        BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        o2.inSampleSize = scale;
        return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o2);
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {}
    return null;
}

The Android Training class, "Displaying Bitmaps Efficiently", offers some great information for understanding and dealing with the exception `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget when loading Bitmaps.

Read Bitmap Dimensions and Type

The BitmapFactory class provides several decoding methods (decodeByteArray(), decodeFile(), decodeResource(), etc.) for creating a Bitmap from various sources. Choose the most appropriate decode method based on your image data source. These methods attempt to allocate memory for the constructed bitmap and therefore can easily result in an OutOfMemory exception. Each type of decode method has additional signatures that let you specify decoding options via the BitmapFactory.Options class. Setting the inJustDecodeBounds property to true while decoding avoids memory allocation, returning null for the bitmap object but setting outWidth, outHeight and outMimeType. This technique allows you to read the dimensions and type of the image data prior to the construction (and memory allocation) of the bitmap.

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.id.myimage, options);
int imageHeight = options.outHeight;
int imageWidth = options.outWidth;
String imageType = options.outMimeType;

To avoid java.lang.OutOfMemory exceptions, check the dimensions of a bitmap before decoding it unless you absolutely trust the source to provide you with predictably sized image data that comfortably fits within the available memory.

Load a scaled-down version into Memory

Now that the image dimensions are known, they can be used to decide if the full image should be loaded into memory or if a subsampled version should be loaded instead. Here are some factors to consider:

• Estimated memory usage of loading the full image in memory.
• The amount of memory you are willing to commit to loading this image given any other memory requirements of your application.
• Dimensions of the target ImageView or UI component that the image is to be loaded into.
• Screen size and density of the current device.

For example, it’s not worth loading a 1024x768 pixel image into memory if it will eventually be displayed in a 128x96 pixel thumbnail in an ImageView.

To tell the decoder to subsample the image, loading a smaller version into memory, set inSampleSize to true in your BitmapFactory.Options object. For example, an image with resolution 2048x1536 that is decoded with an inSampleSize of 4 produces a bitmap of approximately 512x384. Loading this into memory uses 0.75MB rather than 12MB for the full image (assuming a bitmap configuration of ARGB_8888). Here’s a method to calculate a sample size value that is a power of two based on a target width and height:

public static int calculateInSampleSize(
        BitmapFactory.Options options, int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {
    // Raw height and width of image
    final int height = options.outHeight;
    final int width = options.outWidth;
    int inSampleSize = 1;

    if (height > reqHeight || width > reqWidth) {

        final int halfHeight = height / 2;
        final int halfWidth = width / 2;

        // Calculate the largest inSampleSize value that is a power of 2 and keeps both
        // height and width larger than the requested height and width.
        while ((halfHeight / inSampleSize) > reqHeight
                && (halfWidth / inSampleSize) > reqWidth) {
            inSampleSize *= 2;
        }
    }

    return inSampleSize;
}

Note: A power of two value is calculated because the decoder uses a final value by rounding down to the nearest power of two, as per the inSampleSize documentation.

To use this method, first decode with inJustDecodeBounds set to true, pass the options through and then decode again using the new inSampleSizevalue andinJustDecodeBoundsset tofalse`:

public static Bitmap decodeSampledBitmapFromResource(Resources res, int resId,
    int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {

    // First decode with inJustDecodeBounds=true to check dimensions
    final BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
    BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, resId, options);

    // Calculate inSampleSize
    options.inSampleSize = calculateInSampleSize(options, reqWidth, reqHeight);

    // Decode bitmap with inSampleSize set
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
    return BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, resId, options);
}

This method makes it easy to load a bitmap of arbitrarily large size into an ImageView that displays a 100x100 pixel thumbnail, as shown in the following example code:

mImageView.setImageBitmap(
    decodeSampledBitmapFromResource(getResources(), R.id.myimage, 100, 100));

You can follow a similar process to decode bitmaps from other sources, by substituting the appropriate BitmapFactory.decode* method as needed.

I did the following to take the image and resize it on the fly. Hope this helps

Bitmap bm;
bm = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filepath), 100, 100, true);
mPicture = new ImageView(context);
mPicture.setImageBitmap(bm);    

I've spent the entire day testing these solutions and the only thing that worked for me is the above approaches for getting the image and manually calling the GC, which I know is not supposed to be necessary, but it is the only thing that worked when I put my app under heavy load testing switching between activities. My app has a list of thumbnail images in a listview in (lets say activity A) and when you click on one of those images it takes you to another activity (lets say activity B) that shows a main image for that item. When I would switch back and forth between the two activities, I would eventually get the OOM error and the app would force close.

When I would get half way down the listview it would crash.

Now when I implement the following in activity B, I can go through the entire listview with no issue and keep going and going and going...and its plenty fast.

@Override
public void onDestroy()
{   
    Cleanup();
    super.onDestroy();
}

private void Cleanup()
{    
    bitmap.recycle();
    System.gc();
    Runtime.getRuntime().gc();  
}

Hi Please visit the link http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/index.html

or just try to retrieve bitmap with the given function

private Bitmap decodeBitmapFile (File f) {
    Bitmap bitmap = null;
    try {
        // Decode image size
        BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options ();
        o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;

        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream (f);
        try {
            BitmapFactory.decodeStream (fis, null, o);
        } finally {
            fis.close ();
        }

        int scale = 1;
        for (int size = Math.max (o.outHeight, o.outWidth); 
            (size>>(scale-1)) > IMAGE_MAX_SIZE; ++scale);

        // Decode with input-stram SampleSize
        BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options ();
        o2.inSampleSize = scale;
        fis = new FileInputStream (f);
        try {
            bitmap  = BitmapFactory.decodeStream (fis, null, o2);
        } finally {
            fis.close ();
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }
    return bitmap ;
}

This will get an appropriate bitmap and reduce memory consumption

JAVA

Bitmap bm = null;

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

FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, bmpOption);
fis.close();

int scale = 1;

if (bmpOption.outHeight > IMAGE_MAX_SIZE || bmpOption.outWidth > IMAGE_MAX_SIZE) {
    scale = (int)Math.pow(2, (int) Math.ceil(Math.log(IMAGE_MAX_SIZE / 
       (double) Math.max(bmpOption.outHeight, bmpOption.outWidth)) / Math.log(0.5)));
}

BitmapFactory.Options bmpOption2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
bmpOption2.inSampleSize = scale;
fis = new FileInputStream(file);
bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, bmpOption2);
fis.close();

Kotlin

val bm:Bitmap = null
val bmpOption = BitmapFactory.Options()
bmpOption.inJustDecodeBounds = true
val fis = FileInputStream(file)
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, bmpOption)
fis.close()
val scale = 1
if (bmpOption.outHeight > IMAGE_MAX_SIZE || bmpOption.outWidth > IMAGE_MAX_SIZE)
{
  scale = Math.pow(2.0, Math.ceil((Math.log((IMAGE_MAX_SIZE / Math.max(bmpOption.outHeight, bmpOption.outWidth) as Double)) / Math.log(0.5))).toInt().toDouble()).toInt()
}
val bmpOption2 = BitmapFactory.Options()
bmpOption2.inSampleSize = scale
fis = FileInputStream(file)
bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, bmpOption2)
fis.close()

Best practices to avoid memory leaks or OOM for bitmap

1. Do not keep bitmap references for long-lived to a Context / Activity.
2. If you are using a large bitmap as background or something in your application then don’t pull the full image into the main memory. You can use the insample size property of bitmap to bring the size your screen needs.
3. Clean bitmap reference once no longer use.

I needed to load a large size image into Bitmap and I used Glide to solve this issue. First check the image size with BitmapFactory.Options using inJustDecodeBounds set to true, then use Glide to get Bitmap object. I used the profiler to check memory usage but I did not see any memory spike like I did when I was using BitmapFactory.decodeFile(). I am writing in c# as I use Xamarin, so need a little tweak to use in Java. Glide library documentation

private Bitmap DecodeFile(File file) {
        // Decode image size
        BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        
        // setting inJustDecodeBounds to true won't load the file into memory, 
        // but gives you the actual file size.
        options.InJustDecodeBounds = true;
        BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(file), null, options);
        int actualWidth = options.OutWidth;
        int actualHeight = options.OutHeight;
                
        var ratio = (double)actualHeight / actualWidth;

        // Default to 800 x 600. changed the size whatever you need.
        var desiredWidth = 800;
        var desiredHeight = 600;

        if(actualHeight > actualWidth)
        {
            var ratio = (double)actualWidth / actualHeight;
            var futureTarget = Glide.With(Application.Context)
                .AsBitmap()
                .Load(file)
                .SetDiskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.None)
                .SkipMemoryCache(true)
                .Submit((int)(desiredWidth * ratio), desiredWidth);
            bitmap = futureTarget.Get() as Bitmap;
        }
        else
        {
            var ratio = (double)actualHeight / actualWidth;
            var futureTarget = Glide.With(Application.Context)
                .AsBitmap()
                .Load(file)
                .SetDiskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.None)
                .SkipMemoryCache(true)
                .Submit(desiredWidth, (int)(desiredWidth * ratio));
            bitmap = futureTarget.Get() as Bitmap;
        }return bitmap;}

Add the following lines to your manifest.xml file:

<application

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

    <activity>
    </activity>

</application>