[android-developers] Hello. I try to contribute when I can so please help me on an a Bitmap issue if possible.

2011-01-05 Thread chris harper
This a Bitmap question. Given an Android Bitmap which has been written to file I want to read the Android BitMap from the file and convert it to a PNG OUTSIDE of Android (via a regular java program). Here is how I am writing out the Bitmap to a file: screenShot -

Re: [android-developers] Hello. I try to contribute when I can so please help me on an a Bitmap issue if possible.

2011-01-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Chris, Let's clear some terminology first. You don't have Android bitmaps - you're writing data out in your own, uncompressed, format. Reading this format should be pretty easy, just reverse the code below. For compressing to PNG outside Android, try this: http://code.google.com/p/javapng/

Re: [android-developers] Hello. I try to contribute when I can so please help me on an a Bitmap issue if possible.

2011-01-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
PS - there is also this library from Sun / Oracle: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/iio.html which can save to PNG in one line of code: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/forDevelopers/jaifaq.html#save -- Kostya 05.01.2011 20:02, chris harper пишет: This a Bitmap

Re: [android-developers] Hello. I try to contribute when I can so please help me on an a Bitmap issue if possible.

2011-01-05 Thread chris harper
Kostya Your a saint. Thank you for the fast *response*. I like your suggestion of writing it out in .BMP uncompressed format. Then I can just open it as a BMP and convert it to PNG (if need be) outside of android. That Wikipedia link looks very helpful. I'll give that a try. Thank you very

Re: [android-developers] Hello. I try to contribute when I can so please help me on an a Bitmap issue if possible.

2011-01-05 Thread chris harper
Kostya I did some research and found a solution to my issue based on your suggestion which might help someone else out as well. I found this link which has code to read/write out a .BMP file like you suggested (WITHOUT using the javax.imageio because Android doesn't support it).