Question

I have uploaded a new Live Wallpaper up onto the Android Market about a week ago and I am getting quite a few reports of a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError .

This error is happening to smaller phones with not enough memory to load my 1115 by 1000 image as the Live Wallpaper background.

I have tried using inSampleSize, but it scales the background down so much that when I try to scale it back to the normal size it is all pizelated.

Does anyone possibly have an example of how I can fix this problem with my jpg image?

Answer 1

i think that slayton’s reply is probably the first thing to address, but you can also save a lot of memory using inPreferredConfig and anything less than ARGB_8888. Try RGB_565:

BitmapFactory.Options bounds = new BitmapFactory.Options();
bounds.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.RGB_565;
InputStream input = getAssets().open("assets/your-image.jpg");
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input, null, bounds);