Android how to create runtime thumbnail

Question

I have a large sized image. At runtime, I want to read the image from storage and scale it so that its weight and size gets reduced and I can use it as a thumbnail. When a u

Answer 1

/**
 * Creates a centered bitmap of the desired size.
 *
 * @param source original bitmap source
 * @param width targeted width
 * @param height targeted height
 * @param options options used during thumbnail extraction
 */
public static Bitmap extractThumbnail(
        Bitmap source, int width, int height, int options) {
    if (source == null) {
        return null;
    }

    float scale;
    if (source.getWidth() < source.getHeight()) {
        scale = width / (float) source.getWidth();
    } else {
        scale = height / (float) source.getHeight();
    }
    Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
    matrix.setScale(scale, scale);
    Bitmap thumbnail = transform(matrix, source, width, height,
            OPTIONS_SCALE_UP | options);
    return thumbnail;
}