As a crude sort of way to get around this problem, you can assign your
drawable references to null once you do not find a use for them so
that the GC can free these allocations.

On Nov 26, 10:23 am, "daniel.benedykt" <daniel.bened...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> Probably you are having a memory leak
>
> Read this article from google blog.
>
> http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks....
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Daniel
>
> On Nov 26, 3:42 pm, Syl <sylvain.guyoma...@altran.com> wrote:
>
> > In my application, user can click on a button and then he can select a
> > picture from his gallery.
> > This image is then displayed.
>
> > However, when the user performs 3 or 4 times this operation, the
> > following exception is thrown, due to memory allocation problem :
>
> > 11-26 18:31:34.119: ERROR/dalvikvm-heap(707): 6291456-byte external
> > allocation too large for this process.
> > 11-26 18:31:34.119: ERROR/(707): VM won't let us allocate 6291456
> > bytes
> > 11-26 18:31:34.119: DEBUG/skia(707): xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > allocPixelRef failed
> > 11-26 18:31:36.005: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(707): Shutting down VM
> > 11-26 18:31:36.005: WARN/dalvikvm(707): threadid=3: thread exiting
> > with uncaught exception (group=0x40013e28)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707): Uncaught handler:
> > thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):
> > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream(Native Method)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:304)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromStream(Drawable.java:635)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > com.altran.test.selectpicture.MainActivity.onActivityResult
> > (MainActivity.java:74)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:3415)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2835)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:2881)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:112)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1608)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:88)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3742)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run
> > (ZygoteInit.java:739)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:497)
> > 11-26 18:31:36.099: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(707):     at
> > dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
>
> > Here a sample of my code where problem is focused :
>
> > InputStream is = getContentResolver().openInputStream( currImageURI );
> > Drawable drawable = Drawable.createFromStream( is, "src" );
> > is.close();
> > m_imageView.setBackgroundDrawable( drawable );
>
> > Is it possible to force object (here the Drawable object) to be
> > released from memory ?
>
> > Thanks.

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