ImageView: OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget on device locked

I recently added three small images to my apps GUI. They are around 40kb in size. Everything is fine until the screen locks on the device. When I unlock I get this error:

OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

I've seen plenty of articles relating to the error but all seems to be for a different reason. I'm not doing anything fancy like downloading from the internet. Just local resources for the UI.

Any suggestions welcome

Thanks

Dann

If the images are too big, and you are creating many Bitmaps, you'll have either to properly scale the Bitmaps before usage in code, or the shrink your resource images, if they are included in your project.

Also you have to properly use bitmap.recycle() when you no longer use your Bitmaps. This means that setting an Object which contains an Bitmap to null or clearing an ArrayList of Bitmaps won't be enough. You'll first have to iterate over the Bitmaps and call recycle() and clear then the list.