Question

I receive big image (png, >30Mb) and create bitmap for it. And get java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. I try to catch such exception:

try {
    Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(someStream);
} catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
    ;
}

With 2.2 SDK it works well. But with 2.3 app fails with uncatched exception. I don’t understand, why?

Thanks!

Answer 1

you need to re-size bitmap images before you could use them to display.
Have a look at this tutorial about how to re-size bitmaps.

EDIT
alternatively you could try to save bitmap as file to filesystem using FileOutputStream. Something like this.

byte[] imageData;
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
out.write(imageData, 0, imageData.length);
out.flush();
out.close();

decode the bitmap something like this, and scale/resize it as specified in above link.

FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream, null, options);