Android :: OutOfMemory Exception In OnCreate
Oct 2, 2010
I'm having a hard time resolving a crash report. It's an OutOfMemory exception that occurs during the setContentView in the onCreate of my main activity.
I just want to be sure I understood Android LifeCycle well :
1) The onCreate of my main activity is called once and only once during the life time of my application ? Is that correct ?
2) Just like for the big bang, before the oncreate of my activity, nothing exists for that activity, so memory consumption is zero, no objects exists right ?
So what can cause that sometimes, with random framework and devices, I get an OOM exception ? I mean if say my background image is causing this, it should blow up everytime, on every device, shouldn't it ? I mean the result should be reliable.
The background image is a standard jpg : 360*480 weighing 37kb, nothing fancy really :s
The crash report below :
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Aug 24, 2010
I have an Android app that in the onCreate() method, preloads a lot of graphics.
When I test my app on my HTC Aria and launch it, it runs fine. However, if I press the back button to exit my app, and then launch the app again, it crashes with an OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget. If I then launch the app for the third time (right after it has crashed) it launches fine. Then if I close and re-launch it, it crashes again with out of memory. It continues this every-other-time-crashing pattern forever if I keep trying.
I checked to see what life cycle methods were being called and onStop() and onDestroy() are both being called when I exit the app, yet I have a feeling that something is not yet being cleaned up and that by "crashing" the app when I try to launch it the second time, it somehow free's the memory.
Any thoughts on what could be happening or how to remedy this? Please let me know if you need me to post more info.
Info: My app is fairly simple and only has 1 activity that plays some frame animations.
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Jan 15, 2010
I have a list of 70 text items with image icons(which are stored in drawables folder).
If I launch application the first time and scroll the list slowly - the exception doesn't occur.
When the application is launched the first time and I scroll the list with 'fling' action the following exception occurs:
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After that, if I kill the application with DDMS, start it again and scroll it with 'fling' action, exception doesn't occur. So the exception arises only if application is installed and launched the first time.
Here is the adapter I use for the list:
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Is there a way to avoid the exception? Should I catch the exception and escape the memory somehow?
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Nov 5, 2010
In my application I load a couple of images from JPEG and PNG files. When I place all those files into assets directory and load it in this way, everything is ok:
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But when I try to load the exact same images from sd card, I get an OutOfMemory exception!
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This is what I get in the log:
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UPDATE: Tried both of these on real device - it seems that I can't load more than 12MB of bitmaps into whatever is called "external memory" (this is not an sd card).
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Mar 3, 2010
I am encountering an exception in the onCreate method of an activity.
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The onCreate method is as below.
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The layout view XML is as below.
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I've already changed the ID of the ExpandableListView to "list". But it is not effective.
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Jul 14, 2010
I created a sql lite database with the following columns:
static final String dbName="demoDB";
static final String tableName="Employees";
static final String colID="EmployeeID";
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE "+tableName+" ("+colID+" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, "+
colName+" TEXT, "+colAge+" Integer);");
I want to select all the records in the database like this and display them in a gridview:SQLiteDatabase db=this.getWritableDatabase();Cursor cur= db.rawQuery("Select "+colName+", "+colAge+" from "+tableName, new String [] {});String [] from=new String []{DatabaseHelper.colName,DatabaseHelper.colAge};
int [] to=new int [] {R.id.colName,R.id.colAge};
SimpleCursorAdapter sca=new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,R.layout.gridrow,c,from,to);
GridView grid=(GridView)findViewById(R.id.grid);
grid.setAdapter(sca);but i receive the following exception:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: column '_id' does not exist.the db table does not have a column with name '_id'so what is wrong with this code
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Jan 25, 2010
I am facing an Out Of Memory Exception while playing with the application for sometime. I looked in to HeapDump using MAT, and also monitored the heap through DDMS. But HeapDump looks good to me and DDMS heap size is well in limit. Still I am getting this Exception.
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Apr 18, 2010
I really don't know why it's giving me this error... I load an ImageView with an image of 692kb .jpg, using scroll options, so you can scroll it around... the strange it's that when the mobile it's connected to the VM it's less possible to happen. So...how can I prevent this? is there anyway that I can free memory when starting the app? can I tell the system to free memory before loading the image?
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May 21, 2010
I have a really long collection with 10k items, and when running a toString() on the object it crashes. I need to use this output somehow.
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Guide how to increase the heap for and Android application. I don't run the command line.
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Nov 5, 2010
In my app, I am creating a bitmap from its colors code like this :
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Sep 17, 2010
I create Android applications for my job. Eclipse is open all day and I am frequently editing XML files for layouts, etc. I find that creating/editing these XML files pushes up the memory use of Eclipse. Eclipse never seems to release any of the memory and eventually Eclipse tells me that there has been some sort of workbench out of memory error and I have to exit. It will not let me save or do much of anything after this point.
Is there a workaround for this? I don't want to have to exit Eclipse and start it up because of this memory issue. Why won't Eclipse free up its memory use? It just keeps going up. I am still having issues with running out of memory, the eclipse.ini suggestions did not fix it.
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Jun 10, 2010
memory - after only 2-3 minutes I get Force Close and outOfMemory Error. I have only onCreate (I know, stupid, but I didn't knew for anything else as I started only few weeks ago) and inside I have...
@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main);
many lines of code...manipulating with SQLite databases...
}
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Mar 3, 2010
Our app has some memory peaks, which let the heap grow to 13M. After the peak, there's 9M of free heap. Everything's fine until Bitmap objects come into play. Despite having 9M of free heap creating Bitmaps, which have only some 100k, now fail with a OutOfMemoryException!
My theory: Allocation fails if (Java) heap *size* plus external allocations (e.g. Bitmaps) exceed 16M, no matter that there is lots of free memory in the heap. The VM could shrink the heap, but actually does not. Would be quite a flaw in the VM.
Does anyone share this theory?
On the downside of this theory: I do not see anything appropriate (killing the process is probably not) an app developer could do to prevent those OutOfMemoryExceptions given that those memory peaks are legitimate and unavoidable.
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Aug 10, 2010
I have a bitmap that I load from the SD card by allowing the user to choose a picture to display. Once the bitmap is created, I set the Bitmap in an ImageView:
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This works fine. But, if I change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape, and back again a few times, I always get an OutOfMemory exception.
In onPause, I call mBitmap.recycle(), and then on onResume, I call the above code again to create the bitmap and set the ImageView. Since I'm recycling the image each time, how can I get an OutOfMemory error?
In any case, since that failed, I found a post that said to try using onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() and getLastNonConfigurationInstance(). See post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3250987/save-cache-when-rotate-device/3252547#3252547. I changed my code to work this way, and I still get an error. Changing the code, I had the call to getLastNonConfigurationInstance() in onCreate(), and removed all code in onPause and onResume. provide some way to simply load an image, and then be able to pause and resume the Activity without running out of memory?
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Mar 22, 2010
I have an application which fetches data from server and shows it in different lists in my application. I used the adb shell procrank command to find out the memory usage of my application It takes 10 mb for the UI (I have a single Activity ,but many layout files), And the data which comes from the server is stored in memory arrays for logical representation on UI (As well as database)and it takes 6 mb of the memory .So application's runtime size reaches to 16 mb and then many a times its crashing after that with OutOfMemoryException. Another major problem is that later for the next client release , the data comming from the server will be around 12 mb.. :( :( So i need to do a major restructuring in the App.I beleive that i cannot increase my App size from 16 mb to more So my question here is , can i have two seperate applications , one of which will fetch the data from the server and keep it in memory as well as database and another App will be used for showing the UI and it will do an inter Application communication to fetch the data and display it on the UI in this App. So the 1st App wil be a backgrond App which will handle Server communication as well as data storage , the second App will start this 1st App .
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Aug 6, 2009
I wonder why I sometimes get an OutOfMemory Exception in mapView when scrolling around on map and zooming in to the max Zoomlevel? Is this a bug in the Zoomcontrols or MapView Lib?
Here the stacktrace:
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Aug 25, 2010
I've been trying to make a simple live wallpaper out of a boot animation. So basically i have about 50 .pngs in my drawable folder. I'm able to set the animation to about 10-20 frames and it works great. But once i set it to about 30 frames...I get an OutOfMemory Error. I was hoping maybe someone could take a look at my code and maybe give an example of how I could achieve more frames? That would help so much i've been looking at this for hours > <
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And here's a logcat if that'll help at all:
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Jul 23, 2010
I am trying to set a different wallpaper for every home screen, but I get OutOfMemory issues. I have 5 Bitmaps which I am trying to overlay on a wallpaper Bitmap which is 5 times the display width. Using the code below I get OOM. The problem seems to be the first line of code which creates the large wallpaper Bitmap. My question is whether there is a way to do this (i.e. some way that takes up less memory, or someway to allocate more memory?).
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Apr 21, 2009
I sometimes get bug reports that are caused by an OutOfMemory error. It happens when creating a bitmap, but I am pretty sure that it is not the bitmap size that is the real problem, because the instantiation of those images happens > 100.000 times a day without an error report. Those png images are of 4K size (on disk) anyway.
Those bug reports are very infrequent, but still I would love to get rid of them. I can't reproduce the memory growing over 10 MBs (actually way less) when using the app myself and monitoring the memory consumption in DDMS. I also, at no point in time, cache something or hold on to more than one item (article in my case) at a time, except in one list. There the list caches the visible components, which cannot amount to much too and is default functionality from the Android framework.
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Nov 17, 2010
I have to manage several Bitmap in a ListView where each row is composed by one thumbnail and one textview. This ListView can be very long, over 500 rows...
There are two problems I have to solve:
1) it is better if I cache all the bitmaps, maybe using SoftReferences in a HashMap. I've tried this way, but I noticed a strange behavior with the SoftReferences. It seems that the GC clean them too fast. Why?
2) In order to implement the cache correctly I'd also like to understand which is the best practice you suggest me to realize a "image lazy loading". For example... I'm thinking to load all the data for first and then to load only the thumbnails, but only those really visible on the device screen at the and of the scroll action.
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Aug 21, 2009
My prob is the following: My android application has the class TestActivity (entrypoint) -my app uses "library.jar" wich contains J2ME classes, used as library -library.jar also includes "UIActivity" [can spawn several dialogs] wich is called by a (j2me) class of library.jar -I only have the .class files of the j2me-lib stuff, so I cant modify them, but I can do so on Android-classes
so... the short form:
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finally I get the error:
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Do I have to use Services instead of Activities? But afaik I have to give a reference of an activity to spawn dialogs.
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Nov 16, 2010
Leaving aside the lamentable wording of the documentation for this method, it's not really acting as I hoped for an ImageView. I call toggle() from the onClick method of the view but the view system does not redraw my drawable with the checked state. However, if I initialize CHECKED_STATE_SET with android.R.attr.state_checked then the view is draw with the checked state.
So apparently my call to setImageState is not updating the state of the ImageView. The documentation for setImageState is totally blank in the case of an ImageView. What does this mean?
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May 22, 2010
I have been looking it up and I just cant seem to wrap myself around the onCreate and Bundles. I understand that the onCreate is called when the program starts but its how the Bundles get passed around and how they are pertinent. Can anyone try to put this into plain english because I cant seem to find it well described.
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Apr 28, 2010
I have an activity that checks stuffs online when it's created (is the GPS on and if not it asks if the user wants to turn it on).
The problem I'm having is that it is also doing it everytime I change the orientation of the screen.
I've read some comments on onConfigurationChanged() but is there a better way to be sure I'm checking the GPS only when the activity is first created?
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Jul 30, 2010
I try to call inside onCreate() it is ok but not onClick(). How to make it work?
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Nov 11, 2010
I'm opening an Activity using this:
startActivity(new Intent(Parent.this, Child.class)); And on the child, I have this code on the onCreate function (the if contains more than just true, of course): public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); if (true) { AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null); builder.setTitle("Error"); builder.setMessage("Connection error, please try later.") .show(); finishActivity(0); return;}}
Why is the activity not closing? I get the alert box, but then I have to tap the "back" button to go back.
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Nov 6, 2009
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Phone was an HTC My Touch. I got the prompt to choose what activity, browser or youtube, chose youtube.
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Jul 21, 2010
I understand that Android Activities have specific lifecycles and that onCreate should be overridden and used for initialization, but what exactly happens in the constructor? Are there any cases when you could/should override the Activity constructor as well, or should you never touch it?
I'm assuming that the constructor should never be used because references to Activities aren't cleaned up entirely (thus hampering the garbage collector) and that onDestroy is there for that purpose. Is this correct?
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Jul 30, 2010
I am making twitter application in which i open browser for user authentication and i pass call_back URL when launching authentication browser.
Problem is after authenticating it is calling again oncreate of TWitterShare class instead calling onNewIntent method, why is that ? my another class working fine i am unable to find difference any idea by looking at the following ocde why it is calling oncreate again ?
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Aug 23, 2010
I got this class, and nothing inside the onCreate is happening? Does it not automatically get called upon initialization?
Code is below.
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Doing this results in a "application has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again". If I initialize the string to some set of characters instead of null, it'll just stay that way. Should it not do what is inside the onCreate() and make that change?
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