Android: Get thumbnail of image on SD card, given Uri of original image

Question

So i\'ve got a Uri of an image the user chooses out of images off his SD card. And i\'d like to display a thumbnail of that image, because obviously, the image could be huge

Answer 1

I believe this code is fastest way to generate thumbnail from file on SD card:

 public static Bitmap decodeFile(String file, int size) {
    //Decode image size
    BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
    BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file, o);

    //Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.
    int width_tmp = o.outWidth, height_tmp = o.outHeight;
    int scale = (int)Maths.pow(2, (double)(scale-1));
    while (true) {
        if (width_tmp / 2 < size || height_tmp / 2 < size) {
            break;
        }
        width_tmp /= 2;
        height_tmp /= 2;
        scale++;
    }

    //Decode with inSampleSize
    BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    o2.inSampleSize = scale;
    return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file, o2);
}