Android: Out of Memory error StringBuilder

Just add this to the <application /> tag in your manifest:

android:largeHeap="true"

If you do not have enough memory to store your string you can: free some memory, reduce memory consumtion and do not store string in memory.

In your case you need:

• memory to store response (around 1.5+mb)
• memory for string builder (around 1.5+mb)
• memory for resulting string (around 1.5+mb continious memory, very bad)
• BufferedReader/InputStreamReader...etc. (some kilos)

Options:

1. Convert response to a String without string builder. It will save 1+mb.
2. Read response as a stream and convert it to a String without string builder. Request/Response entity streaming. It will save around 3mb
3. Do not convert response to a string. Read it as stream and save to a file or db, or give a stream to streaming JSON parser.
4. Free as much memory as you can before sending your post request and start praying that everything will be alright.