Question

I’m trying to convert one image from byte[] to Bitmap to show the image in the Android application.

byte[]’s value is got by database and I checked that it was not null.
After that, I would like to convert the image but could not success. The program shows that Bitmap’s value is null.

I think there are some problems in converting process.

If you know any tips, please show me.

byte[] image = null;
Bitmap bitmap = null;
        try {
            if (rset4 != null) {
                while (rset4.next()) {
                    image = rset4.getBytes("img");
                    BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
                    bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(image, 0, image.length, options);
                }
            }
            if (bitmap != null) {
                ImageView researcher_img = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.researcher_img);
                researcher_img.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
                System.out.println("bitmap is not null");
            } else {
                System.out.println("bitmap is null");
            }

        } catch (SQLException e) {

        }

Answer 1

From your code, it seems that you take a portion of the byte array and use the BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray method in that portion. You need to supply the whole byte array in the BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray method.

EDIT from comments

You need to change your select query (or at least know the name (or the index) of the column that has the blob data of the image stored in your db). Also intead of getByte use the getBlob method of the ResultSet class. Let’s say that column name is image_data. Having this info, change your code to something like this:

byte[] image = null;
Bitmap bitmap = null;
    try {
        if (rset4 != null) {
                Blob blob = rset4.getBlob("image_data"); //This line gets the image's blob data
                image = blob.getBytes(0, blob.length); //Convert blob to bytearray
                BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
                bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(image, 0, image.length, options); //Convert bytearray to bitmap
        //for performance free the memmory allocated by the bytearray and the blob variable
        blob.free();
        image = null;
        }
        if (bitmap != null) {
            ImageView researcher_img = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.researcher_img);
            researcher_img.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
            System.out.println("bitmap is not null");
        } else {
            System.out.println("bitmap is null");
        }

    } catch (SQLException e) {

    }