Does Android need to load a complete Bitmap from a file before sampling it down?
<p>In: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641726/decoding-bitmaps-in-android-with-the-right-size">Decoding bitmaps in Android with the right size</a> - it is posted that sampling down a bitmap may still lead to memory errors.</p>

<p>Is this issue still valid for newer versions of Android?</p>

<p>Does this mean that before sampling down, Android needs to load the full-size bitmap into memory? I believe this uses native memory, since image handling is implemented in native code.</p>
