Mysterious stacktrace in Android developer console (bitmap size exceeds 32bits)

if it 's a matter of quantity, you have to recycle your bitmaps.
if it's a matter of size (you can't load too big images), you have to load a lighter copy of your bitmap.

Here is the code to create a smaller image

Options thumbOpts = new Options();
thumbOpts.inSampleSize = 4;
Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imagePath, mThumbOpts);

inSampleSize set to a value > 1, requests the decoder to subsample the original image, returning a smaller image to save memory.
Use a power of 2 for it to be more efficient.

This post may be useful

Bitmap.createBitmap()

Throws IllegalArgumentException

if the x, y, width, height values are outside of the dimensions of the source bitmap, or width is <= 0, or height is <= 0

First make sure your x, y, width and height values are smaller than the source bitmap.

The issue for me was the matrix. My matrix has a translation value which brought the one of the values outside of the bounds of the input bitmap.

Hope this helps