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Asked: 2026-05-16T04:25:14+00:00

I have a bitmap that I load from the SD card by allowing the

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I have a bitmap that I load from the SD card by allowing the user to choose a picture to display. Once the bitmap is created, I set the Bitmap in an ImageView:

mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(Media.getBitmap(this.getContentResolver(), mPictureUri));
mImageView.setImageBitmap(mBitmap);

This works fine. But, if I change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape, and back again a few times, I always get an OutOfMemory exception.

In onPause, I call mBitmap.recycle(), and then on onResume, I call the above code again to create the bitmap and set the ImageView. Since I’m recycling the image each time, how can I get an OutOfMemory error?

In any case, since that failed, I found a post that said to try using onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() and getLastNonConfigurationInstance(). See post Save cache when rotate device. I changed my code to work this way, and I still get an error. Changing the code, I had the call to getLastNonConfigurationInstance() in onCreate(), and removed all code in onPause and onResume.

Can someone tell me what the problem is, or provide some way to simply load an image, and then be able to pause and resume the Activity without running out of memory? Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try reducing the size of your bitmap. How big is it? Use BitmapFactory.options.
    Also instead of using “this instance”. See the article about memory leaks:
    http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html

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