I am working on Android. Trying to display the "favicon" (aka "shortcut icon") or web pages.
So I already have the code to get the URL of this icon from any website, and download it onto my Android.
Now I am trying to make a Bitmap out of it, but always get null as a result.
The code:
String src = String.format("file:///data/data/com.intuitiveui.android/files/%s",prefName);
// prefName is "facebook.ico", and I do see tht file in my DDMS file browser. It's
// a valid icon file.
Bitmap res = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(src);
// This returns null
TIA
Here is a list of the supported Android media formats. ICO is not among them. You might be able to find a Java-based ICO decoder, though.
SKIA library provides decoder class for ICO file. I was able to display an ICO file in the emulator. Haven't tried it yet in an actual android device though.
Bitmap bmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile("/sdcard/vlc.ico");
I had a similar problem. BitmapFactory.decode decoded *.ico on emulator but not on my Galaxy S. Solution for me was:
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int read=0;
while((read = inputStream.read()) != -1){
bos.write(read);
}
byte[] ba = bos.toByteArray();
Bitmap icon = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(ba, 0, ba.length);//new FlushedInputStream(inputStream));
The WebView
component has a getFavicon()
method so it's definitely possible to decode ICO files in Android. You could have a look at the Android source to see how ICO files are parsed. I've had a quick look but can't find the relevant part.
Alternatively, you should be use the SDK to get favicons for you. However, I've had a quick try and can't get it to work.
For what it's worth here's my test code, noting again that this doesn't work:
String url = "http://stackoverflow.com";
WebView wv = new WebView(this);
wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
@Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
Log.i("HelloAndroid","Loaded " + url);
Log.i("HelloAndroid","Icon " + (view.getFavicon() == null ? "not" : "") + " found");
}
});
WebIconDatabase wid = WebIconDatabase.getInstance();
wid.requestIconForPageUrl(url, new WebIconDatabase.IconListener() {
public void onReceivedIcon(String url, Bitmap icon) {
Log.i("HelloAndroid","Found Icon for " + url);
}
});
wv.loadUrl("http://stackoverflow.com");
Log.i("HelloAndroid","Loading " + url);
The problem may be down to the fact that I'm not adding the WebView
to a visible View
. If you do get this to work I'd be interested to hear what you did.
So sorry for giving two half complete answers, but I thought it was worth posting what I found.
No accepted answer util now, I will share my findings here.
Windows .ico file format is a little complicated, it might contains one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately. Refer ICO_(file_format)
So when using unix "file" command to check the icon file type, you might get the following result:
- a.ico : MS Windows icon resource - 1 icon, 32x32
- b.ico : MS Windows icon resource - 9 icons, 256x256
Note a.ico and b.ico contains different number of icons.
I tried to use BitmapFactory.decodeFile to decode these icons.
- Two Android devices with Android 4.3 can only decode a.ico, but can not decode b.ico.
- Devices with Android 4.4 or later can decode both a.ico and b.ico.
As I only have limited Android devices, I can't give any conclusion. Maybe anyone else could help.
So if you really want to decode .ico files, you may try:
- Create .ico files with only 1 image/picture in it
- Write your own .ico decoder or 3rd library like image4j