Android Canvas trying to draw too large Exception

Question

I am testing my app on 5 devices: Samsung Galaxy core, Samsung S6 edge, Moto G4, Xiaomi Redmi note 4 and Xiaomi MiA1. Loading bitmaps works fine on them but on some other it throws java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to draw too large. Can you help me find a solution?

Log:

Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to draw too large(135788800bytes) bitmap. at android.view.DisplayListCanvas.throwIfCannotDraw(DisplayListCanvas.java:229) at android.view.RecordingCanvas.drawBitmap(RecordingCanvas.java:97) at android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable.draw(BitmapDrawable.java:529) at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:1367) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20338) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19283) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20061) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4421) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4207) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20341) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19283) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20061) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4421) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4207) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19274) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20061) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4421) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4207) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19274) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20061) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4421) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4207) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19274) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20061) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4421) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4207) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19274) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20061) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4421) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4207) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20341) at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.draw(DecorView.java:979) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19283) at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateViewTreeDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:686) at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateRootDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:692) at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.draw(ThreadedRenderer.java:800) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:3447) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performDraw(ViewRootImpl.java:3234) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2769) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1738) at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:7745) at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:911) at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:723) at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:658) at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:897) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6938) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:327) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1374)

Possible duplicate of Android Studio Canvas: drawing too large bitmap — Abhay Koradiya
If you have any large image in your drawable folder, then compress the image and then it will run perfectly. — Darshan Popat
too big image to draw. Phone can not allocated enough memory. Try yo use vector image or small size image, not high resolution. — Jevgenij Kononov
135788800bytes / 1000 are 135788 kbytes / 1000 are 135 Mbytes, lets assume you have 4 bytes per pixel (ARGB), you have 135788800 / 4 = 33947200 and to assume a squared image: root of 33947200 = 5826. Are you really trying to draw an image with 5800x5800 pixels? — WarrenFaith
actually,I found the solution the real culprit was splash screen image, my designer did some sloppy work and gave me wrong sized images for splash screen, So i tested it on emulator and app crashed in big devices like Pixel xl-2 and in My colleague's phone. image size was not proper and it was causing crash , he gave me new images for that and now everything works fine. — Obito

Chethan Kumar Chethan Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-09T07:59:53

Try to compress your selected image before doing any action.

Here is the code that compress image with equal aspect ratio.

I converted Uri to bitmap

bitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(this.getContentResolver(), uri);

The i pass the bitmap, maxwidth, minWidth to resize().

resizeBitmap = resize(bitmap, bitmap.getWidth() / 2, bitmap.getHeight() / 2);

resize() method

private static Bitmap resize(Bitmap image, int maxWidth, int maxHeight) {
    if (maxHeight > 0 && maxWidth > 0) {
        int width = image.getWidth();
        int height = image.getHeight();
        float ratioBitmap = (float) width / (float) height;
        float ratioMax = (float) maxWidth / (float) maxHeight;

        int finalWidth = maxWidth;
        int finalHeight = maxHeight;
        if (ratioMax > ratioBitmap) {
            finalWidth = (int) ((float) maxHeight * ratioBitmap);
        } else {
            finalHeight = (int) ((float) maxWidth / ratioBitmap);
        }
        image = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(image, finalWidth, finalHeight, true);
        return image;
    } else {
        return image;
    }
}

Android Canvas trying to draw too large Exception

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