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The Start Code for android 8 shows error on running

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Start Code on Android 8 and inspect the bitmap allocation associated with the reported Canvas error. The work is done when the Start Code runs without the "trying to draw too large" bitmap exception.

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Description

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.background, PID: 4227
java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to draw too large(160698048bytes) bitmap.

Dominant language
Kotlin
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Forks
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