Suggestions to avoid bitmap Out of Memory error

just use this function to decode...this is perfect solution for your error..because i also getting same error and i got this solution..

public static Bitmap decodeFile(File f,int WIDTH,int HIGHT){     try {         //Decode image size         BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();         o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;         BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f),null,o);         //The new size we want to scale to         final int REQUIRED_WIDTH=WIDTH;         final int REQUIRED_HIGHT=HIGHT;         //Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.         int scale=1;         while(o.outWidth/scale/2>=REQUIRED_WIDTH && o.outHeight/scale/2>=REQUIRED_HIGHT)             scale*=2;         //Decode with inSampleSize         BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();         o2.inSampleSize=scale;         return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o2);     } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {}     return null; }

Hi you have to decode the file . for this try with the following method.

  public static Bitmap new_decode(File f) {        // decode image size        BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();        o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;        o.inDither = false; // Disable Dithering mode        o.inPurgeable = true; // Tell to gc that whether it needs free memory,                                // the Bitmap can be cleared        o.inInputShareable = true; // Which kind of reference will be used to                                    // recover the Bitmap data after being                                    // clear, when it will be used in the future        try {            BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o);        } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {            // TODO Auto-generated catch block            e1.printStackTrace();        }        // Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.        final int REQUIRED_SIZE = 300;        int width_tmp = o.outWidth, height_tmp = o.outHeight;        int scale = 1;        while (true) {            if (width_tmp / 1.5 < REQUIRED_SIZE && height_tmp / 1.5 < REQUIRED_SIZE)                break;            width_tmp /= 1.5;            height_tmp /= 1.5;            scale *= 1.5;        }        // decode with inSampleSize        BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();        // o2.inSampleSize=scale;        o.inDither = false; // Disable Dithering mode        o.inPurgeable = true; // Tell to gc that whether it needs free memory,                                // the Bitmap can be cleared        o.inInputShareable = true; // Which kind of reference will be used to                                    // recover the Bitmap data after being                                    // clear, when it will be used in the future        // return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o2);        try {//          return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null,//                  null);            Bitmap bitmap= BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, null);            System.out.println(" IW " + width_tmp);            System.out.println("IHH " + height_tmp);                          int iW = width_tmp;                int iH = height_tmp;               return Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, iW, iH, true);        } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {            // TODO: handle exception            e.printStackTrace();            // clearCache();            // System.out.println("bitmap creating success");            System.gc();            return null;            // System.runFinalization();            // Runtime.getRuntime().gc();            // System.gc();            // decodeFile(f);        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {            // TODO Auto-generated catch block            e.printStackTrace();            return null;        }    }

By Reducing/Scale size of the Image you can get rid out of the Out of Memory Exception,Try this

  BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();  options.inSampleSize = 6;   Bitmap receipt = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(photo.toString(),options);  //From File You can customise on your needs.