Are you using BitmapFactory? There have been a number of threads
about memory leaks, or similar problems when using BitmapFactory to
process bitmaps. Using Bitmap.recycle may mitigate, but not eliminate
these types of problems.
M
On Feb 26, 11:39 am, Mattaku Betsujin <mattaku.betsu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I think the best solution to handle very large bitmaps is to be able to
> decode only a small chunk of the bitmap at a time and process it.
>
> Does anyone know if the existing Android API can support this?
>
> If not, probably one solution is to write a smart decoder (in Java, so slow
> :-( ....) that can decode a small chunk.
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Tomei Ningen <tomei.nin...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > You're running into memory fragmentation problems. Bitmap memory is
> > not allocated from the Java object heap. Instead, it's allocated from
> > the 'malloc' heap. That's why you don't see the Java heap expanding.
>
> > How big is your bitmap? If you're processing JPEG files, probably it
> > will be better to read the thumbnail directly from the JPEG file. This
> > way you don't need to create the Bitmap at all.
>
> > On Feb 26, 9:47 am, "bra...@gmail.com" <peacoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ok I am at the end of my rope.
>
> > > I am doing some image processing. I have a large image file which I
> > > open and create a smaller bitmap from. At the end of processing I call
> > > recycle on everything. I null everything. I run GC manually.
>
> > > I then try edit another image and I get an out of VM memory error.
> > > Bitmap exceeds etc etc.
>
> > > I am looking at the heap and the secone edit doesnt seem to cause it
> > > to increase at all.
>
> > > What else can I do. Surely google cannot possibly be suggesting that
> > > we can open one large bitmap per session and thats it?- Hide quoted text -
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