Android OutOfMemoryError : bitmap size exceeds VM budget

Question

i am facing a problem of OutOfMemoryError that is bitmap size exceeds vm budget while changing the orientation of the Droid mobile (but not in any of other mobiles like Andr

Answer 1

Ensure two things:
1. Make sure you are not leaking memory. More info here http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html
2. Reduce the Bitmap memory. Check if downsampling Bitmaps in an option. More info here Strange out of memory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object.

Check SO for "Handling large Bitmaps" and "OutOfMemoryError" I am sure that are plenty of discussions that can help you here.

Answer 2

Just to toss in some info here, I had this exact problem (for me I found out it was the .jpg image I was using for my background).

Well I changed the image from .jpg to .png (and even resized the image a little smaller).

I think that it was the formatting of the .jpg that was giving me the error, simply changing to .png fixed the error for me.