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

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

OutOfMemoryError is the most common problem that occurs in android while especially dealing with bitmaps. This error is thrown by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) when an object cannot be allocated due to lack of memory space and also, the garbage collector cannot free some space.

As mentioned by Aleksey, you can add the below entities in your manifest file android:hardwareAccelerated="false" , android:largeHeap="true" it will work for some environments.

<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">

you should definitely read some of Androids Developer concept's, especially here:Displaying Bitmaps Efficiently

Read all 5 topics and rewrite your code again. If it still doesn't work we will be happy to see what you've done wrong with the tutorial material.

Here some of the possible answers for these type of errors in SOF

Android: BitmapFactory.decodeStream() out of memory with a 400KB file with 2MB free heap

How to solve java.lang.OutOfMemoryError trouble in Android

Android : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

Solution for OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

Edit: From the comments of @cjnash

For anyone that still had crashes after they added this line, try sticking your image into your res/drawable-xhdpi/ folder instead of your res/drawable/ and it might resolve your issue.