Android BitmapFactory.decodeFile skia error <p>I'm designing an activity that shows some images. The code below gets image files and places them into the screen.</p> <pre><code> for(int i=0;i&lt;photoPaths.size();i++){ BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options(); options.inSampleSize = 4; //Bitmap bm= BitmapFactory.decodeFile(new File(photoPaths.get(i)).getAbsolutePath()); Bitmap bm= BitmapFactory.decodeFile(new File(photoPaths.get(i)).getAbsolutePath()); int imageH=bm.getHeight(); int imageW=bm.getWidth(); ImageView image=new ImageView(this); image.setImageBitmap(bm); int padding=10; image.setPadding(0, padding, padding, 0); } </code></pre> <p>The code is running well while placing 5 photos. After them when 6th is placing code fails.</p> <p>Here is the LogCat messages:</p> <pre><code> 06-27 11:13:13.202: D/skia(17373): --- decoder-&gt;decode returned false 06-27 11:13:13.202: D/AndroidRuntime(17373): Shutting down VM 06-27 11:13:13.202: W/dalvikvm(17373): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4142c2a0) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream(Native Method) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:652) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeFile(BitmapFactory.java:391) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeFile(BitmapFactory.java:451) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at com.artechin.mbtkatalog.PhotoGallery.onCreate(PhotoGallery.java:94) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5188) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1094) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2074) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2135) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$700(ActivityThread.java:140) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1237) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4921) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1038) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:805) 06-27 11:13:13.202: E/AndroidRuntime(17373): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) </code></pre> <p>How can I solve the problem?</p>