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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en