Android - BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray - OutOfMemoryError (OOM)
- by Bob Keathley
I have read 100s of article about the OOM problem. Most are in regard to large bitmaps. I am doing a mapping application where we download 256x256 weather overlay tiles. Most are totally transparent and very small. I just got a crash on a bitmap stream that was 442 Bytes long while calling BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(....).
The Exception…