How to store image retrieved from url in a SQLite database?

Question

I am retrieving images from a url. Instead of caching the images, would it by any chance be possible to store it in a SQLite database?

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Answer 1

ya you can store image as BLOB in your database,

public static byte[] urlToImageBLOB(String url) throws IOException {
        httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        entity = null;
        httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
        response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
        if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
            entity = response.getEntity();
        }
        return EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity);
    } 

To fetch

public static Bitmap getImageFromBLOB(byte[] mBlob) {
        byte[] bb = mBlob;
        return BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(bb, 0, bb.length);

    }

// to set imageView.setImageBitmap(getImageFromBLOB(cursor.getBlob(object.getColumnIndex("book_thumb"))));