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
>
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