How to load large images in Android and avoiding the out of memory error?

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You can use another bitmap-config to heavily decrease the size of the images. The default is RGB-config ARGB8888 which means four 8-bit channels are used (red, green, blue, alhpa). Alpha is transparency of the bitmap. This occupy a lot of memory – imagesize X 4. So if the imagesize is 4 megapixel 16 megabytes will immidiately be allocated on the heap – quickly exhausting the memory.

Instead – use RGB_565 which to some extent deteriorate the quality – but to compensate this you can dither the images.

So – to your method decodeSampledBitmapFromResource – add the following snippets:

 options.inPreferredConfig = Config.RGB_565;
 options.inDither = true;

In your code:

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

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

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

 // Decode bitmap with inSampleSize set
 options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
 options.inPreferredConfig = Config.RGB_565;
 options.inDither = true;
 return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(resId, options);
 }

References:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.Config.html#ARGB_8888

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