My android application handles very large Bitmaps. Because of this, I turned hardware-acceleration off on the image views. However, some users have set the Developer-Option 'Force GPU-Acceleration' turned on. This leads to the error 'Bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture'. If I check the view using isHardwareAccelerated(), it always returns false.
Is there any way to catch the OpenGL-Error 'Bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture'?
Bitmap is Composed of Pixels and you can count the number of pixels in the bitmap matrix ,, set a limit to your number of bitmap pixels . In OpenGl i can't say , but in general we can easily handle them , also there is a method
bitmap.inSampleSize();
if you assign
Bitmap.inSampleSize()= 1; then the original bitmap pixel will be loaded.
Bitmap.inSampleSize()= 2; then the pixels will become half of the original pixel.
Bitmap.inSampleSize() = 4 then the pixels will become 1/4 of the original pixel . This way you can reduce the size of the pixels in the bitmap , I have done this thing in my program , hopefully it will work with you too.
I have not worked with OpenGL on Android and therefore dont know is there is anything special one must do to catch uncaught exceptions or error. You could try to register a global exception handler and check if you are able to catch the OpenGL error there.
