Android - BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray - OutOfMemoryError (OOM)
- by Bob Keathley
I have read 100s of article about the OOM problem. Most are in regard to large bitmaps. I am doing a mapping application where we download 256x256 weather overlay tiles. Most are totally transparent and very small. I just got a crash on a bitmap stream that was 442 Bytes long while calling BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(....).
The Exception states:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget(Heap Size=9415KB, Allocated=5192KB, Bitmap Size=23671KB)
The code is:
protected Bitmap retrieveImageData() throws IOException {
URL url = new URL(imageUrl);
InputStream in = null;
OutputStream out = null;
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// determine the image size and allocate a buffer
int fileSize = connection.getContentLength();
if (fileSize < 0) {
return null;
}
byte[] imageData = new byte[fileSize];
// download the file
//Log.d(LOG_TAG, "fetching image " + imageUrl + " (" + fileSize + ")");
BufferedInputStream istream = new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
int bytesRead = 0;
int offset = 0;
while (bytesRead != -1 && offset < fileSize) {
bytesRead = istream.read(imageData, offset, fileSize - offset);
offset += bytesRead;
}
// clean up
istream.close();
connection.disconnect();
Bitmap bitmap = null;
try {
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(imageData, 0, bytesRead);
} catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
Log.e("Map", "Tile Loader (241) Out Of Memory Error " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
System.gc();
}
return bitmap;
}
Here is what I see in the debugger:
bytesRead = 442
So the Bitmap data is 442 Bytes. Why would it be trying to create a 23671KB Bitmap and running out of memory?
