Question

I want go get image from URL and convert it into drawable. I have this method, that works fine:

public static Drawable getDrawableFromUrl(String url) throws IOException {
    Bitmap x;

    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
    connection.connect();
    InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();

    x = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
    return new BitmapDrawable(x);
}

Except one thing. When image is too big app crashes.

E/dalvikvm-heap(12750): 13142360-byte external allocation too large for this process.
E/dalvikvm(12750): Out of memory: Heap Size=6023KB, Allocated=3177KB, Bitmap Size=2563KB, Limit=20480KB
E/dalvikvm(12750): Trim info: Footprint=6023KB, Allowed Footprint=6023KB, Trimmed=952KB
E/GraphicsJNI(12750): VM won't let us allocate 13142360 bytes

Can I somehow increase the memory that I need for the image? Or maybe there is a way around this problem?

Answer 1

Ok. Here is the code that finaly works.
As suggested I reduced the size of image using given function: calculateInSampleSize – thx Androyds.

public static Drawable getDrawableFromUrl(String url, Context context) throws IOException {
    Bitmap x;

    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
    connection.connect();
    InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
    BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);

    BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
bufferedInputStream.mark(connection.getContentLength());
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bufferedInputStream, null, options);
bufferedInputStream.reset();

options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
options.inSampleSize = calculateInSampleSize(options, 400, 400);

x = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bufferedInputStream, null, options);

bufferedInputStream.close();
connection.disconnect();

    BitmapDrawable y = new BitmapDrawable(x);

    return y;
}