Issue
Use Case
Trying to upload an Image from the Android Phone to a remote service by reading the file bytes and converting it into Base64 Encoded String. This generally can happen when the size of image to upload is large say several MB and there is not enough heap size allocated for the app by the Android Runtime System.
Error
11-24 21:38:59.597: E/dalvikvm(17341): Out of memory: Heap Size=65571KB, Allocated=62301KB, Limit=65536KB
11-24 21:38:59.597: E/dalvikvm(17341): Extra info: Footprint=65443KB, Allowed Footprint=65571KB, Trimmed=1684KB
11-24 21:38:59.597: W/System.err(17341): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: (Heap Size=65571KB, Allocated=62301KB)
11-24 21:38:59.597: W/System.err(17341): at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.expand(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:91)
11-24 21:38:59.597: W/System.err(17341): at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:201)
11-24 21:38:59.597: W/System.err(17341): at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCompress(Native Method)
11-24 21:38:59.597: W/System.err(17341): at android.graphics.Bitmap.compress(Bitmap.java:1046)
11-24 21:38:59.597: W/System.err(17341): at com.service.activity.UploadPhotoScreen.onActivityResult(UploadPhotoScreen.java:147)
android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1307)
11-24 21:38:59.607: W/System.err(17341): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)