Design to Handle Large Bitmaps

Design to Handle Large Bitmaps

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The Android system has a limited amount of memory, so downloadingand storing high-resolution images can often cause out-of-memoryerrors in your app. To avoid this, follow these tips:

• Load images only when they'redisplayed on the screen. For example, when displaying multipleimages in aGridView or Gallery,only load an image when getView() iscalled on the View's Adapter.
• Call recycle() on Bitmap viewsthat are no longer needed.
• Use WeakReference forstoring references to Bitmap objectsin an in-memory Collection.
• If you fetch images from thenetwork, use AsyncTask tofetch them and store them on the SD card for faster access. Neverdo network transactions on the application's UI thread.
• Scale down really large images toa more appropriate size as you download them; otherwise,downloading the image itself may cause an "Out of Memory"exception. Here is sample code that scales down images whiledownloading:

    // Get the source image's dimensions
    BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    // This does not download the actual image, just downloads headers.
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = true; 
    BitmapFactory.decodeFile(IMAGE_FILE_URL, options);
    // The actual width of the image.
    int srcWidth = options.outWidth;  
    // The actual height of the image.
    int srcHeight = options.outHeight;  
  
    // Only scale if the source is bigger than the width of the destination view.
    if(desiredWidth > srcWidth)
      desiredWidth = srcWidth;
  
    // Calculate the correct inSampleSize/scale value. This helps reduce memory use. It should be a power of 2.
    int inSampleSize = 1;
    while(srcWidth / 2 > desiredWidth){
      srcWidth /= 2;
      srcHeight /= 2;
      inSampleSize *= 2;
    }
  
    float desiredScale = (float) desiredWidth / srcWidth;
  
    // Decode with inSampleSize
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
    options.inDither = false;
    options.inSampleSize = inSampleSize;
    options.inScaled = false;
    // Ensures the image stays as a 32-bit ARGB_8888 image.
    // This preserves image quality.
    options.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;  
                                                          
    Bitmap sampledSrcBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(IMAGE_FILE_URL, options);
  
    // Resize
    Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
    matrix.postScale(desiredScale, desiredScale);
    Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(sampledSrcBitmap, 0, 0,
        sampledSrcBitmap.getWidth(), sampledSrcBitmap.getHeight(), matrix, true);
    sampledSrcBitmap = null;
  
    // Save
    FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(LOCAL_PATH_TO_STORE_IMAGE);
    scaledBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, out);
    scaledBitmap = null;