I am trying to open a remote Stream of a JPEG image and convert it into a Bitmap object:
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(
new URL("http://some.url.to/source/image.jpg")
.openStream());
The decoder returns null and in the logs I get the following message:
DEBUG/skia(xxxx): --- decoder->decode returned false
Note:
1. the content length is non-zero and content type is image/jpeg
2. When I open the URL in browser I can see the image.
What is that I am missing here?
Please help. Thanks.
The solution provided in android bug n°6066 consist in overriding the std FilterInputStream and then send it to the BitmapFactory.
static class FlushedInputStream extends FilterInputStream {
public FlushedInputStream(InputStream inputStream) {
super(inputStream);
}
@Override
public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
long totalBytesSkipped = 0L;
while (totalBytesSkipped < n) {
long bytesSkipped = in.skip(n - totalBytesSkipped);
if (bytesSkipped == 0L) {
int byteValue = read();
if (byteValue < 0) {
break; // we reached EOF
} else {
bytesSkipped = 1; // we read one byte
}
}
totalBytesSkipped += bytesSkipped;
}
return totalBytesSkipped;
}
}
and then use the decodeStream function:
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FlushedInputStream(inputStream));
The other solution i've found is to simply give a BufferedInputStream to th BitmapFactory:
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new BufferedInputStream(inputStream));
These two solutions should do the trick.
More information can be found in the bug report comments : android bug no.6066
seems there was some problem with the stream and the way android handled it; the patch in this bug report solved the problem for now.
For me the problem is with type of color of image: your image are in color= CYMK not in RGB
I have found a library, which can open images on which Android SKIA fails. It can be useful for certain usecases:
https://github.com/suckgamony/RapidDecoder
For me it solved the problem as I am not loading many images at once and lot of images I load have ICC profile.
I haven't tried integrating it with some common libraries like Picasso or Glide.