"Cannot draw recycled bitmaps" exception with Picasso

Question

I've music player app which interacts with RemoteControlClient. I need to load album cover image to display it in lock screen widget. I try to use Piccasso to achieve this. I've written the folowing code:

private final Target artworkTarget = new Target() {
    @Override
    public void onBitmapLoaded(Bitmap bitmap, Picasso.LoadedFrom loadedFrom) {
        remoteControlClient.editMetadata(false).putBitmap(RemoteControlClientCompat.MetadataEditorCompat.METADATA_KEY_ARTWORK,
                bitmap).apply();
    }

    @Override
    public void onBitmapFailed(Drawable drawable) {
        Log.e(Constants.LOG_TAG, "Artwork loading failed");
    }

    @Override
    public void onPrepareLoad(Drawable drawable) {
    }
};

...

private void playNextSong(int songPosition) {
    ...

    String artworkUrl = Constants.Urls.BASE_ARTWORK_URL + currentSong.getArtworkId();
    Picasso.with(this).load(artworkUrl).skipMemoryCache().into(artworkTarget);
    // Update the remote controls
    remoteControlClient.editMetadata(true)
                .putString(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_ARTIST, currentSong.getArtist().getName())
                .putString(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_ALBUM, currentSong.getAlbum().getName())
                .putString(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_TITLE, currentSong.getName())
                .apply();

   ...
   }

But sometimes I get exception:

    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(31121): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot draw recycled bitmaps
    at android.view.GLES20Canvas.drawBitmap(GLES20Canvas.java:772)
    at android.view.GLES20RecordingCanvas.drawBitmap(GLES20RecordingCanvas.java:105)
    at android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable.draw(BitmapDrawable.java:440)
    at com.squareup.picasso.PicassoDrawable.draw(PicassoDrawable.java:96)
    at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:1025)
    at android.view.View.draw(View.java:13944)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12838)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.View.draw(View.java:13657)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3083)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2920)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12833)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.View.draw(View.java:13657)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3083)
    at android.widget.ListView.drawChild(ListView.java:3331)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2920)
    at android.widget.AbsListView.dispatchDraw(AbsListView.java:2357)
    at android.widget.ListView.dispatchDraw(ListView.java:3326)
    at android.view.View.draw(View.java:13947)
    at android.widget.AbsListView.draw(AbsListView.java:3693)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12838)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.View.draw(View.java:13657)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3083)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2920)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12833)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.View.draw(View.java:13657)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3083)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2920)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12833)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:3057)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12775)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:3057)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12775)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:3057)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12775)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:3057)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12775)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:3057)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12775)
    at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:12880)
    at android.view.HardwareRenderer$GlRenderer.buildDisplayList(HardwareRenderer.java:1411)
    at android.view.HardwareRenderer$GlRenderer.draw(HardwareRenderer.java:1359)
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:2367)
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performDraw(ViewRootImpl.java:2239)
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1872)
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1004)
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:5481)
    at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:749)
    at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:562)
    at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:532)
    at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:735)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:730)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:

I've tried to save loaded bitmap reference in my service, but it didn't help.
Does anybody have idea what is wrong with my code?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I guess you're using an Android 4.3 device or newer. The RemoteControlClient implementation from 4.3 does a recycle on the artwork under certain conditions. See

http://androidxref.com/4.3_r2.1/xref/frameworks/base/media/java/android/media/RemoteControlClient.java#556

You essentially have to make a copy of the bitmap you if Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 18.

Answer 2

In your onDestory() or onDestroyView() callbacks try calling Picasso.with(Context).cancelRequest(Target);

Credit to the guys here: https://github.com/square/picasso/issues/38