Question

I’m trying to display an image having it’s absolute path. I came upon this code on stackoverflow which should theoretically work, however I get error Bitmap too big to be uploaded into a texture on most images so I’m looking for another way to do it. Surprisingly there aren’t any examples apart from this one on how to do it.

This is what I am trying:

Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imagePath);                  
ImageView image = new ImageView(context);
image.setImageBitmap(myBitmap);
layout.addView(image);

By the way the images I’m working with have been taken with the default camera app so they don’t have any uncommon format or size (and can be seen with no problem on the gallery app). How can I add them to my layout?

Answer 1

Just try to resize your image first by using below code and then set it into the ImageView:

 public static Drawable GetDrawable(String newFileName)
{
    File f;
    BitmapFactory.Options o2;
    Bitmap drawImage = null;
    Drawable d = null;
    try
    {           
        f = new File(newFileName);          
        //decodes image and scales it to reduce memory consumption
        //Decode image size
        BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;            
        o.inTempStorage = new byte[16 * 1024];          
        BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o);            
        //The new size we want to scale to
        final int REQUIRED_SIZE = 150;          
        //Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.
        int scale = 1;
        while ((o.outWidth / scale / 2 >= REQUIRED_SIZE) && (o.outHeight / scale / 2 >= REQUIRED_SIZE))
            scale *= 2;         
        //Decode with inSampleSize
        o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        o2.inSampleSize = scale;            
        drawImage = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o2);
        //Bitmap bmp = pictureDrawableToBitmap((PictureDrawable) drawable);         
        d = new BitmapDrawable(drawImage);
        //drawImage.recycle();
        //new BitmapWorkerTask          
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e)
    {
    }
    return d;
}

Use the above method as below:

imageView.setImageBitmap(myBitmap);