Mysterious stacktrace in Android developer console (bitmap size exceeds 32bits)

Question

I'm getting the following stacktrace in the developer console. Some report say "the application won't start" or "crash at startup".

I don't know what to do, it doesn't mention any on my app's class! Anyone got the same error and found a fix?

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bitmap size exceeds 32bits
at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate(Native Method)
at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:695)
at android.view.View.buildDrawingCache(View.java:6646)
at android.view.ViewGroup.onAnimationStart(ViewGroup.java:1345)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1591)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1459)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6996)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:357)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1732)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1459)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1730)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1459)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1730)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1459)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6996)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:357)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.draw(PhoneWindow.java:2054)
at android.view.ViewRoot.draw(ViewRoot.java:1632)
at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1335)
at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1991)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4358)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:849)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:607)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

if it 's a matter of quantity, you have to recycle your bitmaps.
if it's a matter of size (you can't load too big images), you have to load a lighter copy of your bitmap.

Here is the code to create a smaller image

Options thumbOpts = new Options();
thumbOpts.inSampleSize = 4;
Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imagePath, mThumbOpts);

inSampleSize set to a value > 1, requests the decoder to subsample the original image, returning a smaller image to save memory.
Use a power of 2 for it to be more efficient.

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