I am working on Application which is based on lot of bitmaps, now the problem is that in some devices i am getting run time Exception during Application testing.
this might me due to Bitmap size exceeds VM Budget.
Now the issue is that i cant reduce the use of bitmap in Application.so what are the possible solutions.
I had tried following link, but no success.
http://voices.yahoo.com/android-virtual-machine-vm-out-memory-error-7342266.html
please help me.
This Happens because calling invalidate() just redraw same bitmaps on to the canvas..
use garbage collector just try to free memory when these bitmap getting overdraw this
might help you...:-)
Recycle bitmaps when not in use. Compress the bitmap to reduce memory usage. Have a look at this link. http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/load-bitmap.html.
Use a MAT Analyzer to check how much memory is used by bitmap.
Check the link. Talks about memory management and how to use MAT to find memory leaks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CruQY55HOk.
Try compressing btimap to use less memory.
You can try load bitmap with different bitmap config. This may help reduce the size of the loaded bitmap object in the heap, by choosing a different profile. For e.g if you don't need alpha values to be retained, use RGB565 config.
Recyle bitmap; have a look at this, it's a good read.
You can specify
android:largeHeap="true"
in your manifest file. This will allow more heap to the application, but only if it's possible. Available form API 11 onward.
You can also try displaying a scaled down version to the user and allowing any manipulation if any(as default gallery viewer app does).
Also, do check that what you are getting is exactly a "VM budget exceeded due to bitmap" problem, because you yourself are not so sure.
