Sorry I didn't see your answer. Actually I believe every provider in the world does that when with a smaller connection than 3g. It took me a day or so before I could understand what was going on :s
But in the end it was a good thing. I wrote a php script that actually takes the screen display as a parameters and resizes the image before sending it. So no unused bandwidth :D Yahel On 11 mai, 14:21, Jeff <jeff.th...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow! That must have driven you nuts trying to figure that one out. > What provider were you using? > > Did you write a simple servlet or something that would serve the file > as application/octet-stream? > > On May 10, 4:52 pm, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I ran into the same problem a few monthes back. > > > I spent hours trying to figure out why a webview would degrade the > > quality of an image. > > > Turns out it was not the webview, it was my provider : When browsing > > the web on gprs or edge my provider downgrades image quality on their > > server so that its a lot lighter to download on their network. > > When I tried over wifi everything came back to normal. > > > In the end I implemented a regular binary file download from my > > server, and then displayed that image. > > > Yahel > > > On 10 mai, 22:20, Jeff <jeff.th...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am using WebView to display html content in an app. One of the pages > > > has a rather large PNG image. The image is large and detailed on > > > purpose because the idea is to use it as a map and allow users to zoom > > > in to see the detail. > > > > Unfortunately, when the image is displayed with WebView, the quality > > > is horrific. I am assuming that WebView is attempting to do some image > > > optimization to reduce the size of the graphic. > > > > Is there anyway to prevent it from doing this? I don't want the image > > > to lose any of its quality. > > > > Thanks, > > > Jeff > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
