PNG encoding definitely is supported. That is for instance how the wallpaper chosen by the user is stored.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Rohit<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I have a case where I need to retrieve the bitmap from an ImageView > and write that bitmap to a file so that I can later on retrieve it > back again and set it on a new ImageView. I do this using > bitmap.compress() method. However, the problem is that after I do this > about 5 times, the quality of the Bitmap degenerates badly. The format > I use for the bitmap.compress() is JPEG with the quality as 100. In my > mind 100 would mean no compression of the source bitmap and that the > bitmap should be lossless, but it doesnt seem to be that way. Is this > a bug or is this how it is meant to be? > > I want a lossless compression and I tried to use PNG as the format > with bitmap.compress() but that doesnt seem to work either. After > digging around I found out that PNG encoding is not supported, which > basically leads me to believe there is no way of storing (in a > lossless way) a bitmap - isnt that weird? > http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html > > How else can I achieve this lossless writing of bitmap to the file. > Why doesn the Bitmap class simply have an encode() method to write the > bitmap in memory as is? > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
