Out of Memory Error ImageView issue

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I'm new in Android programming and I got an error that says that my app run out of memory, this exampled I copied from a book and it is working with small pictures resolution, but when I added a few pictures with a bigger resolution out of memory error appears, may be I do something wrong or just don't know all I should yet to work with images, if anyone know what should i change so that this error won't appear again, pleas help. Thank you anticipate! The source code: ``` public class ImageViewsActivity extends Activity { //the images to display Integer[] imageIDs={ R.drawable.pic1, R.drawable.pic2, R.drawable.pic3, R.drawable.pic4, R.drawable.pic5 }; /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); final ImageView iv=(ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image1); Gallery gallery=(Gallery) findViewById(R.id.gallery); gallery.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this)); galler…

Accepted Answer

To add on Ken's answer, which is a solid piece of code, I thought I'd knock it down after he set it up:

```
    if(imageView != null) {
        ((BitmapDrawable)imageView.getDrawable()).getBitmap().recycle();
    }
    imageView = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
    imageView.setImageResource(resID);
```

NOTE: This won't work if you are trying to swap an image you already recycled. You'll get something like this in LOGCAT

Canvas: trying to use a recycled bitmap

So what I do now if I don't have to load a bunch of different images asynchronously, I simply put this in onDestroy when dealing with fragments and large background images:

```
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();

imageView.setImageDrawable(null);
}
```

Out of Memory Error ImageView issue

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