I didn't see an answer to your question. You should always recycle
your bitmaps when you're done with them.
bmp.recycle();
That said, bitmaps do take up a lot of memory, and of course it has to
be contiguous, so you must be careful using them. E.g., use System.gc
() judiciously, etc.
-- Jon Webb
On Apr 9, 4:57 pm, petunio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> I am having a problem with theBitmapFactory:
>
> this is my function, that reads a stream, and returns a bitmap:
>
> static Bitmap getBitmap(InputStream is) throws IOException
> {
> Bitmap bmp=null;
>
> //do some stuff...
>
> bmp=BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
>
> return bmp;
> }
>
> after calling it a few times, it crashes giving me the following
> error:
>
> ERROR/(1329): VM won't let us allocate 215488 bytes
> ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1329): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size
> exceeds VM budget
>
> I am counting thememoryused so far, and it's only 395328 bytes, so I
> am sure there must be something else...
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks
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