OutOfMemory when I pick image from Gallery

Question

I try to get images from the Gallery, but when I try to load a large image I'll get the following error after some time:

10-30 13:36:55.180 16246-16246/ua.khuta.freeturnforadmin E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: ua.khuta.freeturnforadmin, PID: 16246
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
 at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.enlargeBuffer(AbstractStringBuilder.java:94)
 at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append0(AbstractStringBuilder.java:145)
 at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:216)
 at ua.khuta.freeturnforadmin.activities.NewsDetailActivity.onActivityResult(NewsDetailActivity.java:265)

My code:

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent imageReturnedIntent) {
 super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, imageReturnedIntent);
 switch (requestCode) {
 case SELECT_PHOTO:
 if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
 Uri selectedImage = imageReturnedIntent.getData();
 InputStream imageStream = null;
 try {
 imageStream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(selectedImage);
 yourSelectedImage = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imageStream);
 ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 yourSelectedImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, byteArrayOutputStream);
 byte[] byteArray = byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray();
 String image = Base64.encodeToString(byteArray, Base64.DEFAULT);
 imagesToShow.add(new News.Image("", image + "base64"));
 changedImages.add(new News.Image("fid_new", image));
 adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
 } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
 }
}

I have read this tutorial on d.android.com but it didn't help me.

EDITED: I have added your method and try next code, but after that i have got another exception

 public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent imageReturnedIntent) {
 super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, imageReturnedIntent);
 switch (requestCode) {
 case SELECT_PHOTO:
 if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
 Uri selectedImage = imageReturnedIntent.getData();
 yourSelectedImage = decodeImage(selectedImage.getPath());
 ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 yourSelectedImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, byteArrayOutputStream);
 byte[] byteArray = byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray();
 String image = Base64.encodeToString(byteArray, Base64.DEFAULT);
 imagesToShow.add(new News.Image("", image + "base64"));
 changedImages.add(new News.Image("fid_new", image));
 adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
 }
 }
 }

and now I got:

 Process: ua.khuta.freeturnforadmin, PID: 24895
 java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=100, result=-1, data=Intent { dat=content://media/external/images/media/33642 flg=0x1 }} to activity {ua.khuta.freeturnforadmin/ua.khuta.freeturnforadmin.activities.NewsDetailActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3351)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:3394)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.access1300ドル(ActivityThread.java:135)
 at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1244)
 at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
 at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5001)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
 at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at ua.khuta.freeturnforadmin.activities.NewsDetailActivity.onActivityResult(NewsDetailActivity.java:257)
 at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:5423)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3347)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:3394)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.access1300ドル(ActivityThread.java:135)
      at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1244)
      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
      at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5001)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
      at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Null pointer at line:

 yourSelectedImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, byteArrayOutputStream);

• Piyush: May be your Image is too high resolution. Just decode your image using scalesize.
• Kostya Khuta: can you give me a piece of code?
• Piyush: Are you getting image from gallery??
• Kostya Khuta: yes, i have get image from galery

Answer 1

When you'r picking up your image from Gallery then use this function.

private void decodeImage(final String path) {
 int targetW = iv.getWidth();
 int targetH = iv.getHeight();
 final BitmapFactory.Options bmOptions = new BitmapFactory.Options();
 bmOptions.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
 BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, bmOptions);
 int photoW = bmOptions.outWidth;
 int photoH = bmOptions.outHeight;
 int scaleFactor = Math.min(photoW / targetW, photoH / targetH);
 bmOptions.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
 bmOptions.inSampleSize = scaleFactor;
 bmOptions.inPurgeable = true;
 Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, bmOptions);
 imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
 }

Now when you getting imagepath after that use this function like,

 decodeImage(yourimagePath);

EDIT:

Your getting image from Gallery then use this code in onActivityResult() method.

 Uri selectedImage = data.getData();
 String[] filePath = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
 Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(selectedImage, filePath,
 null, null, null);
 c.moveToFirst();
 int columnIndex = c.getColumnIndex(filePath[0]);
 yourSelectedImage = c.getString(columnIndex);
 c.close();
 if (yourSelectedImage!= null) {
 Log.v("Image", yourSelectedImage); 
 decodeImage(yourSelectedImage);
 }

• Kostya Khuta: yourimagePath it is URI witch i get from intent?
• Piyush: No its a image path from gallery.
• Kostya Khuta: watch my edited question please, i have tried you code
• Piyush: Just check in Log "yourSelectedImage". Is this getting your imagepath properly or not?
• Piyush: @KostyaKhuta Have you checked my edited answer?? And are you getting image at that path? First check my edited answer and let me know.

Answer 2

You can set largeHeap="true" in your manifest. Other than this there are various other technique to handle bitmaps which you can find here. There is a library named Picasso that can help you a lot. just don't cache the the image by skipMemoryCache(). I think this will help you a lot :)