title: Causing OutOfMemoryError in Frame by Frame Animation in Android
body: <p>I am having lots of images as frames in my resources/drawable folder (let say approx 200). And using this images i want run a animation. The longest animation is of 80Frames. I am successfully able to run the animation on click of the buttons for some, but for some of the animation it is giving me OutOfMemoryError saying that VM can't provide such memory. It is out of VM Budget. I count the size of all of the images its about 10MB. The size of each image is 320x480 in pixels. </p>
  
  <p>I try googling and found that i need to explicitly call the Garbage Collector using System.gc() method. I have done that but still i am getting some time error of memory. Can anyone please kindly help me out in this.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Some Code:-</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>ImageView img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.xxx);
  img.setBackgroundResource(R.anim.angry_tail_animation);
  AnimationDrawable mailAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) img.getBackground();
  MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(this.getApplicationContext(), R.raw.angry);
      if(mailAnimation.isRunning()) {
      mailAnimation.stop();
      mailAnimation.start();
          if (player.isPlaying()) {
          player.stop();
          player.start();
      }
      else {
          player.start();
      }
  }
  else {
      mailAnimation.start();
          if (player.isPlaying()) {
          player.stop();
          player.start();
      }
      else {
          player.start();
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>This is the code i have written in on click of a Button.....</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Resource file inside res/drawable/anim</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:oneshot="true" &gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0000" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0001" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0002" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0003" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0004" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0005" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0006" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0007" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0008" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0009" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0010" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0011" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0012" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0013" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0014" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0015" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0016" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0017" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0018" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0019" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0020" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0021" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0022" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0023" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0024" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/cat_angry0025" android:duration="50"/&gt;
  
  &lt;/animation-list&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>** The above is the resource file used in setBackgroundResource, same way I am having 10 more file for other different animation. **</p>
  
  <p><strong>Error Log</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method of the activity
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:2144)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2485)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9080)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:2139)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  ... 11 more
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399): Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeAsset(Native Method)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:460)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:336)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:697)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1709)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:581)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.graphics.drawable.AnimationDrawable.inflate(AnimationDrawable.java:267)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Drawable.java:787)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXml(Drawable.java:728)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1694)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:581)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at android.view.View.setBackgroundResource(View.java:7533)
  01-16 22:23:41.594: E/AndroidRuntime(399):  at talking.cat.CatActivity.middleButtonClicked(CatActivity.java:83)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Same way i have different buttons for different animation...
  Thanks</p>