Question

I’m developing an Android Application for a tablet (1024×768). I searched and find some solutions here, but anyone solved me the problem. The application has 5 screens and each screen has an ImageView that I load:

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imageView1"
    android:layout_width="1024dp"
    android:layout_height="768dp"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="TRUE"
    android:src="@drawable/scene1"
    />

The first and the second screen loads good, but when I try to load the third one, I get the following errors (Every screen I load by startActivity which its layout. It’s not a layout error, because if I load them with a different order, I can load two and the third one crases too):

05-28 17:03:51.774: E/AndroidRuntime(401): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{xxx}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #10: Error inflating class <unknown>

05-28 17:03:51.774: E/AndroidRuntime(401): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #10: Error inflating class <unknown>


05-28 17:03:51.774: E/AndroidRuntime(401): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException


05-28 17:03:51.774: E/AndroidRuntime(401): Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

I tried several things:

 @Override
  public void onPause()
  {
    super.onPause();
    Log.i("URI", "Syste.gc");
    // yada yada yada...

    System.gc();
  }

and

@Override
protected void onDestroy()
{
    super.onDestroy();

    unbindDrawables(findViewById(R.id.RootView));
    System.gc();
}

private void unbindDrawables(View view)
{
    if (view.getBackground() != null)
    {
        view.getBackground().setCallback(null);
    }
    if (view instanceof ViewGroup)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < ((ViewGroup) view).getChildCount(); i++)
        {
            unbindDrawables(((ViewGroup) view).getChildAt(i));
        }
        ((ViewGroup) view).removeAllViews();
    }
}

but I always get the error.

The images are PNG and its weight is lower than 50k.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try to load the image in the onCreate() method instead of loading it from the XML.

Have you tried to first read the dimensions and type of the image, and then load a scaled down version of that image?

As the Android developer resources suggest.