out_of_memory_error occur using AnimationDrawable?

Question

I have 5 FrameLayout, In all screen i am using AnimationDrawable class for some animation and when Activity goes to another activity or further.

Edit 1 for code snippet what I am Using :

iView_cow.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View arg0) {
            try {
                startCowBlinking.stop();
                iView_cow.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.cow_turn_movement);
                startCowAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) iView_cow.getBackground();
                startCowAnimation.start();
                mHandler.postDelayed(r, 4000);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // TODO: handle exception
            }
        }
    });

     mHandler = new Handler();
     r = new Runnable() {

        @Override
        public void run() {
            try {
                if(startCowAnimation.isRunning()){
                    startCowAnimation.stop();
                    iView_cow.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.cow_blink);

                    startCowBlinking = (AnimationDrawable) iView_cow.getBackground();
                    startCowBlinking.start();
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // TODO: handle exception
            }


        }
    };

Like this animation, I am using 3-4 animation on each activity. Application run fine but After some time I got this error:

dalvikvm-heap:  Out of memory on a 4840016-byte allocation.

And

10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeAsset(Native Method)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:577)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:445)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:775)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1998)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:707)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.graphics.drawable.AnimationDrawable.inflate(AnimationDrawable.java:280)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Drawable.java:869)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXml(Drawable.java:806)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1983)
10-26 00:57:58.601: E/AndroidRuntime(12952):    at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:707)

For solution I did two things when Activity Switch

Finish the currrent activity by finish();
Finish all the AnimationDrawable by using stop();

It helped me to recover this error but not longer. So someone suggest me to what shold I do ?

That's strange... It should not be that way. I have an AnimationDrawable with 23 images running sweet! It could be the size and quality of the images, have you checked that? — NOlivNeto, Oct 25 '13 at 19:54
size less than 100 k and png format... one more thing some dimension of the images are bigger than screen and I just put into ImageView in a fixedsize @NOlivNeto — , Oct 25 '13 at 19:57
can u tell me the way to free the memory or release it for AnimationDrawable @NOlivNeto — , Oct 25 '13 at 19:59
Well... Think about it. 100K/image, about 30 images running on memory... That's a lot. Try to reduce then. — NOlivNeto, Oct 25 '13 at 20:00
In every animation Drawable some also running till the activity is alive @NOlivNeto — , Oct 25 '13 at 20:01
I posted an answer of how to release memory with bitmaps, but I think you could downsize your images. — NOlivNeto, Oct 25 '13 at 20:02
@NOlivNeto: tell me where you posted the answer. i'll check this And hmm... I try to downsize of the image dimensions — , Oct 25 '13 at 20:05
On this very question heheh. For reducing the quality of the images, check [that](http://www.raymond.cc/blog/4-free-tools-to-optimize-and-compress-png-images-without-loosing-quality/) — NOlivNeto, Oct 25 '13 at 20:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '13 at 20:04

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At the end of every activity, release the bitmaps and large objects by calling bitmap.recycle() on Bitmaps (get them from with component.getDrawable().getBitmap()) and setting null to the objects.

answered Oct 25 '13 at 20:04

NOlivNeto

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All Images what I am using , is in the xml file. So , how can I use the bitmap.recycle() on it – Oct 26 '13 at 07:12
No problem at all, use component.getDrawable().getBitmap(), assuming is a ImageView or something :) – NOlivNeto Oct 28 '13 at 23:25
when I tried null to the object , next time When I came back That object whic I assigned null is showing blank ... what is this ? – Oct 29 '13 at 03:37
You should null large objects, not the component image bitmap. For the bitmap you must call recycle() – NOlivNeto Oct 29 '13 at 20:37

Silambarasan Poonguti · Answer 2 · 2014-03-06T12:11:26.813

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I Think your drawable images are too large. Better you should reduce the image sizes. It'll give the best result if images size should be drawable-128*128.

edited Mar 06 '14 at 12:11

answered Mar 06 '14 at 12:04

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