Hi again, So I finally figured out that the problem is due to my mobile network operator doing image compression to save bandwidth. I discussed the problem further at the following URL, in case it could be of help to anybody:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2183808/android-bitmapfactory-decodebytearray-gives-pixelated-bitmap/2185694#2185694 I don't suppose there is anything I can do to get around this, but if anybody has an idea, it would be much welcome (-: Best, Michael. On Feb 1, 10:22 pm, michael <michael.d.peder...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > You are resaving a JPEG. You'll be compressing twice. > > > Why don't you try to directly save the data obtained from the URL to a > > file on the SDCard. Don't do any compressing. Just a direct save of > > the JPG file from Flickr. > > Thanks for the suggestion! > > However, saving the bitmap to a JPEG file was really just to > illustrate thepixelationproblem - I assumed there would be no > quality loss with the quality parameter set to 100. What I'm actually > doing is to draw the bitmap downloaded from Flickr onto a canvas in > the onDraw method of my View class: > > Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG | > Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG); > canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, paint); > > Pixelationsimilar to that shown in my example pictures then occurs. > Any idea why this would be the case? > > Note that bitmaps loaded from my project resources draw just fine > using this approach; although if I downscale using the > Bitmap.createScaledBitmap() method, a similarpixelationproblem > occurs. This problem was discussed e.g. here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2041207/android-quality-of-the-ima... > > but none of the suggested solutions seem to improve the situation in > my case. > > Thanks again for your suggestions, I really hope there is a solution > to this issue. > Best, > Michael. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
