Android:java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 23970828 byte allocation with 2097152 free bytes and 2MB until OOM

Question

I want to show the Bitmap image in ImageView from sd card which is stored already. After run my application is crash and getting Ou

Answer 1

Use Glide Library and Override size to less size;

Glide.with(mContext).load(imgID).asBitmap().override(1080, 600).into(mImageView);

Answer 2

In some cases (e.g. operations in a loop) garbage collector is slower than your code. You can use a helper method from this answer to wait for garbage collector.

Answer 3

This worked for me: just move images from drawable folder to drawable-hdpi.

Answer 4

For me, the problem was that my .png file was being de-compressed to be a really huge bitmap in memory, because the image had very large dimensions (even though the file size was tiny).

So the fix was to simply resize the image :)

Answer 5

Issue : Failed to allocate a 37748748 byte allocation with 16777120 free bytes and 17MB until OOM

Solution : 1.open your manifest file 2. inside application tag just add below two lines

 android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
 android:largeHeap="true"

Example :

 <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
        android:largeHeap="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

Answer 6

add this to your manifest under applications? android:largeHeap="true"