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Asked: 2026-06-03T13:08:37+00:00

I want to load an image on android background = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.hangmanbegin); background = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(background,screenx,screeny,false);

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I want to load an image on android

background = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.hangmanbegin);    
background =  Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(background,screenx,screeny,false);

The image is 800*1280 pixels , so if I’m correct it should use arround 3MB of memory space?
But my heap grows from 15MB to 29MB just at that phase , so no window or context leaking?

How is this explained? en what can you do about it?

Thnx in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Bitmaps take up a lot of memory, especially for rich images like
    photographs. For example, the camera on the Galaxy Nexus takes photos
    up to 2592×1936 pixels (5 megapixels). If the bitmap configuration
    used is ARGB_8888 (the default from the Android 2.3 onward) then
    loading this image into memory takes about 19MB of memory (2592*1936*4
    bytes), immediately exhausting the per-app limit on some devices.

    from http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/index.html

    credit and below it a way to approach a fix https://stackoverflow.com/a/10127787/643500

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