java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 3225612 byte allocation with 886384 free bytes and 865KB until OOM

Question

Really having this issue. Sorry because this question many times has been asked. but it was needed. I am displaying large images after scale down. So My app looks like as Flipboard app. User can flip the pages right or left. I used recycle() so it will free the each bitmap. But when user will swipe 8 -9 pages it is working but after that app crash and some time not crash. Only issue is due to memory.

I am looking a way that i will catch the exception silently and free app memory. is it good way or possible? is any other solution?

i am using this library for displaying the images https://github.com/androidquery/androidquery

Answer 1

I guess it will solve your problem, just paste this in your application tag in manifest file

android:largeHeap="true"

Answer 2

It sounds like you have a memory leak. There are multiple tools to find out what is causing it.

• LeakCanary, a very nice library from Square
• Allocation Tracker in Android Studio
• Eclipse Memory Analyzer (MAT) to analyze a heap dump

Good luck finding the culprit!