Hi everybody

I am having a problem with the BitmapFactory:

this is my function, that reads a stream, and returns a bitmap:

static Bitmap getBitmap(InputStream is) throws IOException
{
Bitmap bmp=null;

//do some stuff...

bmp=BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);

return bmp;
}

after calling it a few times, it crashes giving me the following error:

ERROR/(1329): VM won't let us allocate 215488 bytes
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1329): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget


I am counting the memory used so far, and it's only 395328 bytes, so I am sure there must be something else...

any ideas?

Thanks

Are you using bitmap recycle()? Try calling that on a bitmap when you're finished with it. That will help free up some memory.