I have a jpg image in my app that shows correctly. In my listview i'd like to make the image more transparent so it is easier to see the text. I changed the image to a png format and altered it's opacity in GIMP. Now that the new image is in the app drawable folder. Im getting the following error. why? 09-28 09:24:07.560: I/global(20140): call socket shutdown, tmpsocket=Socket[address=/178.250.50.40,port=80,localPort=35172] 09-28 09:24:07.570: I/global(20140): call socket shutdown, tmpsocket=Socket[address=/212.169.27.217,port=84,localPort=55656] 09-28 09:24:07.690: D/dalvikvm(20140): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 113K, 4% free 38592K/39907K, paused 32ms 09-28 09:24:07.690: I/dalvikvm-heap(20140): Forcing collection of SoftReferences for 28072816-byte allocation 09-28 09:24:07.740: D/dalvikvm(20140): GC_BEFORE_OOM freed 9K, 4% free 38582K/39907K, paused 43ms 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/dalvikvm-heap(20140): Out of memory on a 28072816-byte allocation. 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): "main" prio=5 tid=1 RUNNABLE 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 obj=0x40a57490 self=0x1b6e9a8 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): | sysTid=20140 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1074361640 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): | schedstat=( 2289118000 760844000 2121 ) utm=195 stm=33 core=1 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeAsset(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:486) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:773) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:2042) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:2812) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.ViewGroup.<init>(ViewGroup.java:410) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.widget.LinearLayout.<init>(LinearLayout.java:174) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.widget.LinearLayout.<init>(LinearLayout.java:170) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:586) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:653) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:678) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:466) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:278) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1897) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.carefreegroup.ShowMoreDetails.onCreate(ShowMoreDetails.java:26) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4543) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1071) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2181) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2260) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:139) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1277) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:156) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5045) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/dalvikvm(20140): Out of memory: Heap Size=46115KB, Allocated=38582KB, Limit=65536KB 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/dalvikvm(20140): Extra info: Footprint=39907KB, Allowed Footprint=46115KB, Trimmed=892KB 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/Bitmap_JNI(20140): Create Bitmap Failed. 09-28 09:24:07.740: A/libc(20140): Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0x00000004 (code=1) 09-28 09:24:09.750: I/dalvikvm(20367): Turning on JNI app bug workarounds for target SDK version 10... 09-28 09:24:09.940: D/dalvikvm(20367): GC_CONCURRENT freed 864K, 21% free 3797K/4771K, paused 2ms+2ms thanks. [update] @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.showmoredetailslayout); actualCallTime = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.actualcalltime); doubleUp = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.doubleupcallid); needName = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.needname); needNameLabel = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.neednamelabel); getRotaDetails = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttongetrotadetails); intent = this.getIntent(); String actualTimeIn = intent.getStringExtra("actTimeIn"); String actualTimeOut = intent.getStringExtra("actTimeOut"); String doubleUpValue = intent.getStringExtra("doubleUpValue"); String needNameWithCommas = intent.getStringExtra("needNameWithCommas"); callID = intent.getStringExtra("callID"); String[] needs = needNameWithCommas.split(","); actualCallTime.setText("This call was completed at " + actualTimeIn + " -" + actualTimeOut); if( ! doubleUpValue.equalsIgnoreCase("") || doubleUpValue.equalsIgnoreCase("]")){ doubleUp.setText("This call was not a double up "); }else{ doubleUp.setText("This call was a double up " + doubleUpValue); } needNameLabel.setText("Purpose of Call: "); for (int i = 0; i < needs.length; i++){ needName.append( needs[i] + "\n"); } getRotaDetails.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { Intent intent = new Intent(ShowMoreDetails.this, GetRotaDetails.class); intent.putExtra("callIDExtra", callID); startActivity(intent); } }); } }